Training and Technical Assistance

NACo provides educational and technical assistance to counties on a wide range of important issues. Through publications, workshops and examples of best practices this NACo resource helps to improve local services and address county needs. Detailed information about our many programs can be found below.

Indoor Air Quality
From the early 1990s through 2007, the Indoor Air Quality Program helped counties improve indoor air quality and make their communities healthier through programs addressing radon, environmental tobacco smoke and children, indoor asthma triggers and air quality in schools.

Climate Protection Program
The Climate Protection Program provides counties with best practices, tools and resources to assist them in developing and implementing successful climate change programs at home.

Criminal Justice
The Criminal Justice Program helps counties find solutions to safely and effectively divert individuals with mental illness from county jails to community-based mental health treatment and to better create community alternatives to unnecessary juvenile detention.

Family Success/Child Development

Through a variety of programs NACo assists counties in learning to provide excellent early childhood development activities and to improve efforts that strengthen and support families economically.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
The Geographic Information Systems Program provides NACo members with education and technical assistance on issues associated with GIS and related technologies.

Green Government Initiative
The Green Government Initiative serves as a catalyst between local governments and the private sector to encourage practices, products and policies that result in financial and environmental savings.

Health
NACo’s Healthy Counties programs are designed to help counties find solutions to the challenges they face in their communities, including increasing access to care, expansion of rural health systems, and advancing programs and policies to prevent childhood obesity.

Homeland Security
The Homeland Security Program offers best practice publications, toolkits, and workshops to provide timely information for county officials and their staff about key homeland security topics.

Land Use
The Land Use Program provides county officials with information on land use planning resources and tools to assist their local land use decision-making and practices

Special Information Centers
The Rural County Governance Center provides rural public officials with information on emerging and current issues facing rural communities. The Center for Sustainable Communities supplies a forum for counties and cities to work together to generate long-term policies and programs leading to sustainable communities.

Transportation
The Transportation Program provides information to assist rural county officials in participating in their statewide transportation planning process as well as the latest developments in ITS technologies, through examples and best practices from counties and regional entities across the country.

Water Resource Management
Program provides county officials with technical assistance, grant support, best management practices and information on water resources issues such as wetlands protection and restoration, as well as coastal management and habitat restoration, watershed planning, stormwater and wastewater management.

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