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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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
Child Care A Focus For Governors at the 2024 NGA Winter Meeting
State Strategies To Mitigate The Impact Of Housing Instability On Child Welfare Involvement
2024 GHSAC Winter Meeting
Governors Continue to Use Emergency Powers to Address the Drug Overdose Epidemic
Governors’ Reimagining Models of Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
NGA Supports States to Disrupt the Linkage Between Trauma and Substance Use Disorder
State Strategies To Address The Impact Of Covid-19 On Maternal And Child Populations: Behavioral Health
Governors Share Housing Solutions
Governors’ Investments to Build a Strong Workforce in Emerging Sectors
Working Together with Mutual Respect and Dignity
The Farm Bill and Cultivating the Future – 2024 NGA Winter Meeting Task Force Meeting
NGA Welcomes 6 States into Youth Mental Health Policy Academy
PAST NGA CHAIRS INITIATIVES
- 2022-2023
Gov. Phil Murphy’s Initiative
Strengthening Youth Mental Health - 2021-2022
Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s Initiative
K-12 Computer Science Education - 2019-2020
Gov. Larry Hogan’s Initiative
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