We recently had the pleasure of spotlighting 12 county best practices during National County Government Month. These innovative programs were recipients of the 2015 CSAC Challenge Awards.

For the past few months, CSAC communications staff has been on the road to learn more about these programs for the videos and blogs we produced. We traveled from San Diego to Amador, Los Angeles to Mendocino.

Along the way we met scores of committed county staff members, residents benefiting from the programs, and even a couple of happy canines. The staff spoke with passion, the clients showed their gratitude, and the dogs … well… they wagged their tails.

The innovative programs we learned about touched on a number of key issues to counties:  corrections, foster care, water, veterans services and human trafficking to name a few.