Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Webinar
Testing a New Terminology System for Health and Social Services Integration
This webinar evaluates a novel mechanism for incorporating social services into existing health billing codes, thereby allowing both social and health care services to be reimbursed within one system.
Financing
Health Care
Social Needs
Report
Housing and Homelessness: Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing
This report provides guidance for those in non-health care sectors (e.g. housing, social services, community-based organizations) on effectively engaging and advancing conversations with health care stakeholders about sharing data.
Data
Financing
Complex Care
Social Needs
Report
Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing: A Look Across Five Sectors
This report outlines the process of discovering the value of multi-sector data sharing initiatives and a basic method for reaching out to those in a community who may share an interest in collaborating and sharing data.
Data
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Report
Cross-Sector Data in Action
This report highlights ways that cross-sector data can guide the development of innovative initiatives to improve people’s lives. Examples include using data to inform a community needs assessment, build the case for a city-wide Housing First initiative, and guide a complex care intervention that begins in a county jail.
Data
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Mental Health
Social Needs
Report
Healthy Homes Des Moines Case Study
This report illustrates how the Healthy Homes Des Moines collaborative, based in Des Moines, Iowa, addresses what happens when you treat asthma with healthy housing and education.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Partnering to Catalyze Comprehensive Community Wellness: An Actionable Framework for Health Care and Public Health Collaboration
This report provides a framework to facilitate collaborative working relationships between the public health and health care sectors, including governance structure, financing plan, cross-sector prevention model(s), data sharing strategy, and performance measurement and evaluation.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Publication
Housing and Health: An Overview of the Literature
This policy brief outlines health and housing literature and provides high-level direction for future research and policy agendas, as there is strong evidence characterizing housing’s relationship to health.
Data
Shared Purpose
Social Needs
Report
Beyond the Grant: A Sustainable Financing Workbook
This workbook demystifies financing and gives multisector partnerships and organizations a handful of practical, user-friendly tools to help them see financing in a new light and create an action plan for moving beyond the grant.
Financing
Alignment 101
Report
Navigating Legal Parameters for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration
This report provides examples of how organizations address legal and regulatory concerns about sharing data. Approaches include creating easy-to-use tools to determine who has access to which data, creating adaptable yet secure data sharing agreements, and engaging the leadership and legal teams of the organizations involved.
Data
Alignment 101
Report
DASH Bright Spot: Partnering with Managed Care Organizations to Share Data for Community Health Improvement
This report details how the health department and managed care organizations in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania formed a unique data sharing partnership to improve cardiovascular health outcomes.
Data
Chronic Disease
Health Care
Public Health