Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Brief
Framework for Aligning Sectors With Glossary
This framework visually depicts how aligned systems require that sectors think and work together in fundamentally new ways to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities they serve in ways that are built to last.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Multi-Sectoral Alliance Resource Compendium
This compendium contains guidance documents, best practices, case studies, and tools to assist in developing and optimizing multi-sector alliances focused on social determinants of health.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Social Needs
Social Services
Webinar
Using Whole-Person Care to Coordinate Health and Social Services for Medicaid Populations during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webinar reviews a study evaluating the effectiveness of California’s Whole Person Care initiative in coordinating health and social services for Medicaid beneficiaries with complex needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Understanding Patients’ Perspectives on Social Risk Screening
This podcast episode explores research studies examining patients’ and caregivers’ perspectives about the acceptability of social risk screening in the context of clinical care settings and the common question, “Should I screen for a social need I can’t address?”
Data
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs
Brief
Building Effective Health System-Community Partnerships: Lessons from the Field
This brief shares considerations for health care organizations and government entities seeking to build effective partnerships with the individuals and communities they serve to better address their health and social needs.
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Collaboration in Communities to Address COVID-19
This report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation follows nine diverse communities across the United States from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic through October 2020. It details how cross-sector collaboration is contributing to ongoing response and recovery efforts.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Leveraging Accountable Health Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report examines how the Camden Coalition’s team of Accountable Health Communities (AHC) screeners and navigators and AHC program partners have continued their work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Moving from Talk to Action: Advancing Equity with Results Based Accountability
This webinar on February 25 explores strategies to advance health equity with results based accountability.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Webinar
Changes in Capacity to Absorb Clinical-to-Community Referrals during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webinar introduces a study assessing the capacity of community social services organizations and their partners to meet the needs of new clients identified through emerging social determinants of health screening and referral tools used by medical providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
COVID-19
Health Care
Social Needs
Case Study
Aligning in Action: Mississippi Delta Promise Communities through the Delta Health Alliance
This case study explores how two Mississippi Delta Promise Communities developed a “cradle-to-career” national model that builds a pipeline of programs, services, and supports so that children and youth in distressed communities can succeed in school and beyond.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services