NGA Center for Best Practices
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Maternal Mental Health Week 2025
Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is an opportunity to recognize and discuss mental health conditions that can arise during and after pregnancy. This year, the week is dedicated to the ...
Congressional Briefing on Governors Reshaping Workforce Development
Last week, NGA and the Harvard Project on Workforce hosted a virtual congressional briefing to present results from the recently released report, Governors Reshaping Workforce Development: Turning WIOA Challenges into Workforce Solutions which highlights ...
Empowerment Through Adult Literacy: Policy Pathways for Governors
Adult literacy programs and partnerships provide foundational skills that lead to increased employment opportunities, improved physical and mental health outcomes, and financial stability for families and communities. The National Governors ...
Let’s Get Ready
All Americans should have access to education that prepares them for success in life. As the world changes and technology evolves, ensuring all students graduate with the skills and knowledge necessary for success is increasingly critical for our nation’s economic competitiveness.
As Governors, we lead states facing economic opportunities but also challenges, shortages in workforce, skills mismatch, and widening opportunity gaps that limit true economic mobility for Americans. We must take these indicators as a call to action.
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Four Ways Congress Can Partner with States and Territories to Combat COVID-19
Susie Perez Quinn | Director, Government Relations As leaders of their respective states and territories, governors are battling the effects ...
Will COVID-19 Accelerate Transformations in Education and Workforce Policy?
Q&A with Future Workforce Now Project Leaders On July 6, the National Governors Association, FHI 360 and Fab Foundation published ...
Strategies to Address the Need for Personal Protective Equipment as States Gradually Reopen
(View/Download) OVERVIEW As states and territories gradually reopen their economies and relax social distancing rules meant to slow transmission of ...
Understanding & Supporting the On-Demand Workforce
(View/Download) Background As governors and state officials lead response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the unique challenges facing on-demand workers have ...
State Strategies to Leverage RESEA in Response to COVID-19
(View/Download) Introduction This memo provides an overview and state examples of Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA), an integrated unemployment ...
Responding to Natural Disasters During COVID-19
The summer season of hurricanes and wildfires is upon states, and combined with the current COVID-19 crisis, may prove disruptive ...
2020 NGA Transportation Policy Institute
The National Governors Association’s (NGA) first annual Transportation Policy Institute is a unique event that brings together governors’ transportation policy ...
State Human Services Actions & Initiatives for COVID-19
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices has compiled a table listing State Human Services Actions & Initiatives responding ...
Strategies for COVID-19 Response for Populations Receiving Long-Term Care
(View/Download) This memo, originally published on April 3, and was last updated on July 13. Introduction As governors consider ways ...
Cybersecurity Concerns for Health and Public Health Organizations
(View/Download) Background Public health and healthcare organizations are at the forefront fighting against unprecedented physical dangers from the COVID-19 outbreak ...
POLICY ACADEMY ON SCALING WORK-BASED LEARNING
The NGA Center for Best Practices, with support from the Siemens Foundation, is assisting states in scaling high quality work-based ...
The Navigator – North Carolina’s Online Work-Based Learning Platform
The NGA Center for Best Practices, with support from the Siemens Foundation, is working with states through the Policy Academy ...
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