The NACo High Performance Leadership Academy empowers frontline county government professionals with fundamental, results-oriented leadership skills.
Signature Projects
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Reports & Toolkits
COVID-19 Recovery Clearinghouse
The COVID-19 Recovery Clearinghouse features timely resources for counties, including allocation estimations, examples of county programs using federal coronavirus relief funds, the latest news and more. -
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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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Economic Mobility Leadership Network
The Economic Mobility Leadership Network (EMLN) is a NACo cohort of county leaders that facilitates and incubates county-specific discussion and problem-solving on issues of economic mobility and helps county leaders identify and assess their current barriers to mobility and share scalable and transferable programs across the country. -
Reports & Toolkits
NACo-NSA Joint Task Force: Pre-trial Detainee Health Care and Recidivism
Convened in March 2019, the National Association of Counties (NACo) and National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) joint task force is exploring and raising awareness about the impacts of the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP) -
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Early Childhood
Counties not only play a pivotal role in building thriving communities for an estimated 16 million children ages birth to three across the United States, but also invest in core policies and services that help to shape early childhood systems. -
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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. -
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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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Substance Abuse and Justice
Substance abuse has had a large impact on local justice systems, including population growth, policy change and increased spending on behavioral health treatment in correctional settings. Substance abuse, as a health crisis, has transformed the way that justice system actors respond to behavioral health and public safety issues and led county leaders to pursue strategies that better connect health, human services and justice agencies to triage response and share resources. -
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. -
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Housing and Health Action Learning Cohort
The Housing and Health Cohort seeks to support counties in their exploration, learning and action in understanding the impact of housing quality, stability, affordability, and neighborhood on county health outcomes. -
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 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. -
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Healthiest 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 page2021 NACo/Nationwide Scholarship Opportunity
Are you the parent, grandparent or legal guardian of a high school senior? If you have an active account funded by employee dollars to a 457(b) Plan offered through the NACo Deferred Compensation Program, your student is eligible to apply for one of four $2,500 college scholarships. Scholarships will be awarded in the fall of 2021. -
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. -
Basic pageSafety and Justice Challenge
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
