Model Practices

NACCHO’s Model Practices Program nationally honors and recognizes outstanding local public health practice and shares the outstanding practices through the Model Practices Database. By submitting a practice, LHDs contribute to the overall improvement of public health through effective evidence-based practice methods.

Model Practices are awarded to local health departments across the country for implementing programs that demonstrate exemplary and replicable outcomes in response to an identified public health need. Promising Practices are exciting approaches and strategies to local public health issues that are on track to becoming Model Practices. Each awarded practice was reviewed by a committee of peers, made up of other local health department professionals, and selected from a competitive collection of applications.

2021 Model Practices Program Application Now Open: APPLY HERE.

Applications are open from November 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020. To learn more about the 2021 application cycle, watch the recording of the Informational Webinar here.

Have questions? Please email model-practices@naccho.org.

If you have any questions concerning the Model Practices program please e-mail model-practices@naccho.org and a member of NACCHO’s Model Practices team will get back with you.