
NGA Center for Best Practices
The NGA Center for Best Practices teams and divisions develop innovative solutions to today’s most pressing public policy challenges. The center is the only research and development firm that directly serves the nation’s Governors.
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Discussing Youth Mental Health at the 2023 Jed Policy Summit

Disagree Better Panelists Highlight Ways to Teach Students of All Ages about Healthy Conflict and Free Expression

Giving Thanks, Giving Back

Building Systems for Success: Key Considerations for Youth Apprenticeship System Design
Disagree Better
Americans need to disagree better. And by that we don’t mean that we need to be nicer to each other, although that’s helpful. We need to learn to disagree in a way that allows us to find solutions and solve problems instead of endlessly bickering.
The “exhausted majority” of Americans want this, and the science is clear about interventions that reduce polarization. As doers and builders, Governors are in a unique position to model what healthy conflict looks like.
Governor Spencer Cox’s Disagree Better NGA Chair’s initiative looks at the problems of polarization, elevates the solutions that groups around the country are already implementing, and features Governors showing what disagreeing better looks like. Through public debates, service projects, public service announcements and a variety of other tactics, Americans will see a more positive and optimistic way of working through our problems.
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Center for Best Practices Library

Governors’ Responses to Challenges in Housing Availability and Affordability

Accessibility Innovations in Travel, Tourism and Outdoor Recreation

Federal Funding and Financing for Hydrogen Energy Production and Use

State Strategies to Support Nontraditional Hours Child Care

Governors Leading on Supply Chain Resiliency
2023 Health and Human Services Policy Advisors Institute

State Approaches to Enhancing Supply Chain Resiliency

American Samoa Supports Behavioral Health and Healthcare Workforce Needs

Supporting State-Level Deflection and Pre-Arrest Diversion Initiatives

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in State Government

Disability Employment Awareness Month 2023

Opioid Litigation Settlement Funds Summit
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