Rural county leaders across the country use strategic planning to tackle local challenges. Through innovative best practices in community planning, counties take advantage of their place-based assets to address community needs and encourage economic gr...

The first few years of life are among the most important years of an individual’s life. According to UNICEF, “the early years of childhood form the basis of intelligence, personality, social behavior, and capacity to learn and nurture oneself as an adu...

Every year, more than 2 million children, youth, and young adults formally come into contact with the juvenile justice system. As many as 65 to 70 percent of these juveniles have at least one diagnosable mental health need,

​Counties play an essential role in the development and maintenance of the nation’s infrastructure. They are responsible for building and maintaining 45% of the public roads, 230,690 bridges and are involved in a third of the nation’s transit and airpo...

This year, NACo is celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the Achievement Awards program. Started in 1970, the annual NACo Achievement Awards program recognizes the innovative work that counties do every day to modernize government and increase services t...

Today, more people between the ages of 25 and 64 are dying from a drug overdose than from a car crash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of overdose deaths has created a multifaceted challenge for counties.

This past January, NACo held a joint Healthy Counties Initiative, Smart Justice and Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee forum in Charleston S.C. This special video podcast takes a look at two of the issues discussed during the forum: addressing r

County leaders are realizing that instead of relying on outside investments, there are multiple forms of wealth found within their communities. This podcast explores the Ford Foundation’s WealthWorks approach to community and economic development, which

In 2014, NACo in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, held Community Dialogues in six counties across the country. In this week’s episode listen to county elected officials and

There are some experiences that occur over the course of our childhood that stay with us for a lifetime. For nearly half of the children in the United States ranging from newborns to 17 years of age, these events have been adverse experiences or childhood