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The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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Strategies to Achieve Alignment, Collaboration, and Synergy across Delivery and Financing Systems: Testing a New Terminology System for Health and Social Services Integration
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Testing a New Terminology System for Health and Social Services Integration

Systems for Action
10.08.2018
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.
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Health Care
Social Needs
Housing and Homelessness: Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing
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Housing and Homelessness: Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing

Data Across Sectors for Health
09.04.2018
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.
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Complex Care
Social Needs
Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing: A Look Across Five Sectors
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Unlocking the Value of Data Sharing: A Look Across Five Sectors

Data Across Sectors for Health
09.04.2018
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.
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Alignment 101
Cross Sector Data in Action
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Cross-Sector Data in Action

National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
08.2018
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.
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Alignment 101
Complex Care
Mental Health
Social Needs
The Build Health Challenge: Healthy Homes Des Moines Case Study
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Healthy Homes Des Moines Case Study

BUILD Health Challenge
07.10.2018
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.
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Chronic Disease
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Partnering To Catalyze Comprehensive Community Wellness: An Actionable Framework For Health Care And Public Health Collaboration
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Partnering to Catalyze Comprehensive Community Wellness: An Actionable Framework for Health Care and Public Health Collaboration

Public Health Leadership Forum , Health Care Transformation Task Force
06.13.2018
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.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Housing and Health: An Overview of the Literature
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Housing and Health: An Overview of the Literature

Health Affairs
06.07.2018
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.
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Social Needs
Financing Workbook: It's time to think beyond the grant.
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Beyond the Grant: A Sustainable Financing Workbook

ReThink Health
2018
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.
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Alignment 101
Navigating Legal Parameters for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration
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Navigating Legal Parameters for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration

National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
06.2018
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.
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Alignment 101
DASH Bright Spot: Partnering with Managed Care Organizations to Share Data for Community Health Improvement
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DASH Bright Spot: Partnering with Managed Care Organizations to Share Data for Community Health Improvement

Data Across Sectors for Health
05.07.2018
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.
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Chronic Disease
Health Care
Public Health