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. The following article highlights on of those Model Practices, which was submitted by the Florida Department of Health in Duval County and highlights what they were able to achieve within their community when it comes to overdose intervention.
For additional information about the Model Practices Program or to search Model Practices Database, visit