Florida's Civic Health Index

In 2006, The National Conference on Citizenship launched an ambitious effort to establish a national index to measure the state of America's civic health. Since that time, developmental work on the Civic Health Index has been undertaken in partnership with the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), Harvard's Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, Civic Enterprises, and a wide range of distinguished scholars and practitioners. The Civic Health Index is intended to help the nation chart its progress toward building and maintaining engaged, effective, and responsible citizens. In 2008, The Florida Joint Center for Citizenship - a partnership between the Lou Frey Institute of Politics and Government at the University of Central Florida and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida - joined with NCoC and organizations in Ohio and California to begin the development of state-level civic monitoring systems. The first result of that partnership was Florida's Civic Health Index 2008, released in October 2008. The 2009 report was released in October 2009.