NGA ISSUE LIBRARY
Our nation’s Governors are dedicated to leading bipartisan solutions that improve citizens’ lives. Through NGA, Governors identify priority issues and deal with matters of public policy and governance at the state, national and global levels. NGA teams work side-by-side with state leaders to identify challenges and develop solutions. View NGA products below, filterable by content type and topic.
Strengthening Youth Mental Health: A Governor’s Playbook
The Playbook is intended to serve as a tool for states to further impactful policy solutions that strengthen youth mental health. Nationally, ...
Resource Guide on State Actions to Prevent and Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma
States are actively engaged in supporting trauma-informed best practices to mitigate the effects of ACEs and trauma and promote resilience ...
Leveraging Telehealth for Justice-involved Populations With Substance Use Disorders
This brief reviews activities undertaken by states to expand the use of telehealth for justice-involved individuals with SUDs during the ...
Green Banks: An Overview for Governors
As Governors plan to meet their decarbonization, grid resilience and energy affordability policy objectives, innovative financing approaches like state green ...
Prioritizing Resilience: Best Practices on Energy Resilience for Healthcare Facilities
This paper contains best practices to best position healthcare facilities when energy stressor events occur, prioritizing healthcare facility energy resilience ...
Youth Mental Health and Substance Use
In a time when the drug supply is more lethal than ever, preventing substance use and mitigating risk among youth ...
Cleaning Up America’s Nuclear Weapons Complex: 2023 Update for Governors
Since the 1992 enactment of the Federal Facilities Compliance Act, the U.S. Department of Energy Office and states have worked ...
Hydrogen as an Energy Source
This brief is intended as a short introduction to hydrogen as an energy source. It will briefly discuss the various ...
Securing States: Modernizing to Attract & Retain Cyber Talent
Just as cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, so is effective recruitment and retention of qualified state cybersecurity personnel. The consequences ...
State Approaches to Equitable Distributed Energy Resource Deployment
Expanding access to clean, renewable distributed energy resources in an equitable manner is a priority of many Governors, and can ...
Messaging in a Bottle: Evaluating Behavioral Insights to Build Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence
Increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children is a complex challenge that will likely require many different strategies from Governors. (Download) ...
State Strategies to Address the Needs of Justice-Involved Youth Impacted by Collateral Consequences
This publication documents a series of learning calls, and a roundtable, held by NGA on collateral consequences for youth involved ...
