The NACo High Performance Leadership Academy empowers frontline county government professionals with fundamental, results-oriented leadership skills.
Signature Projects
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The Stepping Up Initiative
In May 2015, NACo and partners at the CSG Justice Center and APA Foundation launched Stepping Up: A National Initiative to Reduce the Number of People with Mental Illnesses in Jails. -
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Opioid Epidemic Resource Center
Counties are on the frontline of ensuring the health and safety of our residents affected by this crisis. -
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Connecting the Unconnected: Counties Linking Residents to Services
NACo President Greg Cox's presidential initiative will explore ways that county government are connecting our residents in the spirit of building healthy, safe and vibrant communities. -
Reports & Toolkits
2019 Achievement Awards: Celebrating 49 Years of Innovation
The Achievement Awards Program is a non-competitive awards program that seeks to recognize innovative county government programs. -
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NACo High Performance Leadership Academy
The NACo High Performance Leadership Academy is an online 12-week program that will empower frontline county government professionals with the most fundamental leadership skills to deliver results for counties and communities. -
Basic pageCounty Leadership Institute
The County Leadership Institute is a multi-day program hosted in Washington, D.C. by NACo and Cambridge Leadership Associates. CLI strives to build upon the leadership of elected and appointed county officials through thought-provoking education focused on the Adaptive Leadership Model. -
Basic pageAetna Foundation: Build Healthy Communities
NACo partners with the Aetna Foundation on projects to improve county health. -
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Keeping Counties Moving
Since 2015, NACo with support from the Federal Highway Administration has worked to assist county officials and staff in exploring the nexus between transportation innovation and investments that promote long-term economic resilience. -
Basic pageResilient Counties Initiative
The NACo Resilient Counties Initiative builds leadership capacity to identify and manage risk, and prepare counties to become more flexible and responsive to system shocks and stresses. It has a holistic approach to resilience, examining social and economic resilience, sustainability and disaster management. -
Basic pageHealthiest Cities & Counties Challenge
The challenge aims to improve measurable health outcomes and promote health, wellness, equity and social interaction through practical, evidence-based strategies and cross-sector collaboration. -
Basic pageHealthiest Communities
Healthiest Communities is an interactive destination for consumers and policymakers, developed by U.S. News & World Report in collaboration with the Aetna Foundation. -
Basic pageHealthy Counties Initiative
Healthy Counties focuses on enhancing: public-private partnerships in local health delivery, acccess to, and coordination of, care for vulnerable populations in the community and community public health and behavioral health programs. -
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Data-Driven Justice
The Data-Driven Justice initiative represents a growing network of counties that are reducing incarceration by developing strategies to identify frequent users of jails, hospitals, homeless shelters and other crisis and emergency services and divert them to effective, community-based treatment and care. -
Basic pageCounties Futures Lab
The Counties Future Lab brings together leading national experts to examine and forecast the trends, innovations and promises of county government with an eye toward positioning America's county leaders for success. -
Basic pageSmart Justice
NACo's Smart Justice efforts aim to build knowledge and capacity for successful justice policies and practices among the nation’s counties. -
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Creative Placemaking Toolkit for Counties
The Creative Counties Placemaking Initiative supports counties as they work to identify and strengthen ways to integrate arts into solutions to local challenges. -
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County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute released the ninth annual County Health Rankings on March 14, 2018. The County Health Rankings show us where we live matters to our health and provides counties with an annual check-up of their health. -
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The Safety and Justice Challenge provides support to local leaders from across the country who are working to safely reduce overincarceration in jails, more effectively use taxpayer resources and protect public safety -
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Pritzker Children's Impact Network
The Pritzker Children’s Initiative (PCI), a project of the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation, is a national effort to promote high-quality early learning and development for children from birth to age three with the goal of improving kindergarten readiness. -
Basic pageCoal-Reliant Communities Innovation Challenge
The Coal-Reliant Communities Innovation Challenge supports county and regional leaders in coal-reliant communities with retooling their economies to become more resilient to changing conditions. -
Basic pageCounty Prosperity Summit
In Spring 2015, NACo worked with counties across the country to host County Prosperity Summits to generate creative solutions around local economic opportunities. -
Basic pageRural Impact County Challenge: A National Effort to Combat Rural Child Poverty
Recognizing the critical role local officials play in supporting innovation and change, NACo has a national initiative to help advance counties’ efforts to reduce the number of rural children and families living in poverty.
