NGA Center for Best Practices
NGA Center for Best Practices teams develop innovative solutions to today’s most pressing public policy challenges. The NGA Center is the only research and development firm that directly serves the nation’s Governors.
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High-Quality Youth Development and Out-of-School-Time (OST) Opportunities
In this webinar, Jodi Grant from the Afterschool Alliance and Dr. Deborah Moroney from American Institutes for Research discuss how governors and states can best support students, families, and communities ...
State Snapshots For Strengthening The Educator Workforce
A series of conversations with nationally recognized experts in the education field on strategies and promising practices for strengthening educator recruitment and retention, including for advancing school leadership policies and ...
NGA Welcomes Three States and Territories into Policy Academy to Strengthen Benefits Systems Through Innovative Technology
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices us pleased to welcome American Samoa, Hawai’i, and Louisiana to the Policy Academy to Strengthen Benefits Systems Through Innovative Technology. The 12-month ...
Reigniting the American Dream
Every American should have the opportunity to build a life of purpose, to strengthen their community, and to help shape a nation defined not only by prosperity, but by potential realized. Yet across our very diverse states, too many people have lost faith in this opportunity. They’ve faced too many obstacles, encountered too many closed doors, and given up the hope of a brighter future. We can do better.
Reigniting the American Dream is more than an initiative. It’s an invitation for every U.S. governor to take action.
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Governors Homeland Security Advisors Council
The NGA Center formed the Governors Homeland Security Advisors Council (GHSAC) to provide an organizational structure through which the homeland ...
Health Care Workforce Redesign
Scope of Practice Scope of practice defines the types of services that a particular health care worker can provide as ...
Health Care Workforce Planning
An accessible, well-trained and flexible health care workforce is vital to governors to improve the health of residents, control cost ...
Return on Investment and Prevention
With national attention on transforming health care systems, governors and other state leaders are focused on finding interventions that improve ...
State Options Under ACA Section 1332
Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) gives states significant flexibility to change many elements of their individual and ...
State Insurance Marketplace Options
States have regulatory oversight authority over large portions of their private health insurance markets. The NGA Center for Best Practices ...
Data, Privacy and Interoperability
New and innovative health care delivery and the payment infrastructure to support those reforms must be built on the interoperable ...
Interagency Collaboration Toward Population Health
The current conversation about how to reform the nation’s health care system centers on the important task of finding ways ...
Data-Informed Policy
Data can serve as an extremely powerful tool to set governors’ priorities and inform their decision-making. State leaders are in ...
State Health Innovations and State Innovation Models
Through the State Innovation Models (SIM) initiative, 38 states (including territories and the District of Columbia) have received financial and ...
State Health Reform Initiatives
The U.S. health care system is currently undergoing significant change. Much of the change happening today is focused on finding ...
Aligning State Systems for a Talent-Driven Economy: A Road Map for States
Summary The National Governors Association (NGA) released a comprehensive report, Aligning State Systems for a Talent-Driven Economy: A Road Map ...
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