National Association of Counties
Counties can align housing goals with health goals to create healthy, affordable neighborhoods that improve outcomes and quality of life for all residents. Learn more about key strategies counties are using in their communities to address housing equity in NACo’s new report on Addressing Housing to Improve Health Outcomes.
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<p> What does it take to house and support familiar faces?
<p>Counties are directing resources to programs, practices and policies to reduce the overuse and misuse of the criminal legal system, improve public safety, better serve residents with behavioral health conditions and improve communit
<p>Counties play a key role in public health at the local level, as the conveners of multi-sector stakeholders, administrators of federal health-funding programs, like Medicaid, and providers of many crucial health services for residen
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<h3><strong>Counties Matter in Human Services</strong></h3>
<h1>With <a id="naco" name="naco">NACo</a>, Saving Feels Better</h1>
<p>All matters pertaining to children’s issues, foster care, public assistance and income support, services to senior citizens and individuals with disabilities, immigration policy, social services, and elementary,
<p>NACo's Opioid Solutions Center empowers local leaders to invest resources in effective treatment, recovery, prevention and harm reduction practices that save lives and address the underlying causes of substance use disorder.
With American Rescue Plan funds, counties are strengthening America’s workforce, addressing the nation’s behavioral health crisis, expanding broadband access, improving housing affordability and building prosperous communities for the next generation.
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