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.
Program Areas
Center for Best Practices Library
Sustaining State Health Information Exchange: A State Toolkit
2010 Maternal and Child Health Update: States Make Progress Towards Improving Systems of Care
State Roles in Delivery System Reforms
How States and Territories Fund Transportation: An Overview of Traditional and Nontraditional Strategies
Innovative State Transportation Funding and Financing
Maternal and Child Health Update 2008
Policy Strategies for Advancing Interstate Health Information Exchange: A Report to the State Alliance for e-Health
Shaping a Healthier Generation: Successful State Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Preparing to Implement HITECH: A State Guide for Electronic Health Information Exchange
State Employee Health Management Initiatives
NGA Center Influenza Resources
Small Business Initiatives for Health Coverage and Disease Prevention
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