Project Save Lives: A Hospital-Based Peer Overdose Intervention.

Since 2003, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has administered the Model Practice Award Program to commemorate the outstanding work of local health departments that have demonstrated creative and dynamic action in addressing identified public health needs. This nationally recognized award has been bestowed to over 3,000 local health departments since its inception and provides local health departments with a shared database of hundreds of health departments and over 850 best practices that are immediately replicable in their communities without having to “reinvent the wheel.” In 2022, five outstanding local health department programs were recognized as Model Practices and sixteen programs were recognized as Promising Practices.