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The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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Multisector Partnerships Have the Potential to Transform Health, but Most Aren’t There Yet
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Multisector Partnerships Have the Potential to Transform Health, but Most Aren’t There Yet

ReThink Health
01.30.2018
This blog post offers a systematic assessment of the more advanced multi-sector partnership for health. The blog highlights Central Oregon Health Council, a unique nonprofit organization that plays a critical role in improving the health of residents across Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties.
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Alignment 101
Elements of Accountable Communities for Health: A Review of the Literature
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Elements of Accountable Communities for Health: A Review of the Literature

National Academy of Medicine, George Washington University
11.06.2017
This review of the literature seeks to understand the fundamentals of accountable communities for health, including common characteristics, major challenges, and variations in stakeholder engagement to address identified community needs.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Activating Shared Data: Lessons learned from cross-sector data sharing partnerships across the nation
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Activating Shared Data

National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
11.02.2017
This webinar details how organizations are using collaborative data to drive decisions and to plan and implement programming.
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Alignment 101
Complex Care
Social Needs
Toolkit for Developing a Public Narrative: Using Powerful Storytelling to Motivate Action
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Toolkit for Developing a Public Narrative

ReThink Health
10.30.2017
This toolkit guides leaders of multisector partnerships and their members who are interested in harnessing the power of storytelling to motivate others to join them in action through the development of a public narrative.
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Alignment 101
Bridging Community-Based Human Services and Health Care Case Study Series: Executive Summary
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Bridging Community-Based Human Services and Health Care Case Study Series: Executive Summary

Nonprofit Finance Fund, Center for Health Care Strategies, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities
10.2017
This brief captures and shares insights for partnerships between health care organizations and community-based organizations, particularly those that serve low-income and/or vulnerable populations.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Social Needs
Using Medicaid Levers to Support Health Care Partnerships with Community-Based Organizations
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Using Medicaid Levers to Support Health Care Partnerships With Community-Based Organizations

Nonprofit Finance Fund, Center for Health Care Strategies, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities
10.2017
This fact sheet outlines strategies to help state Medicaid officials encourage partnerships between community-based organizations and health care organizations.
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Health Care
Medicaid
Social Needs
Ensuring Healthy Outcomes for Louisville's Vulnerable Children: Health Access Nurturing Development Services Program
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Ensuring Healthy Outcomes for Louisville’s Vulnerable Children: Health Access Nurturing Development Services Program

Nonprofit Finance Fund, Center for Health Care Strategies, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities
10.2017
This case study explores a partnership between Family & Children’s Place and the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness that provides home visitation services for new and expectant parents to equip them with the skills to support a healthy family.
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Medicaid
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs
Collaborating to Reduce Hospital Re-admissions for Older Adults with Complex Needs: Eastern Virginia Care Transitions Partnership
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Collaborating to Reduce Hospital Readmissions for Older Adults With Complex Needs: Eastern Virginia Care Transitions Partnership

Nonprofit Finance Fund, Center for Health Care Strategies, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities
10.2017
This case study features a collaborative in Virginia including more than 80 health care and social services organizations, which is designed to reduce hospital readmissions and improve quality of care by using evidence-based care transition coaching and in-home assessments.
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Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs
Meeting the Health and Social Service Needs of High-Risk LGBTQ Youth in Detroit: The Ruth Ellis Health and Wellness Center

Meeting the Health and Social Service Needs of High-Risk LGBTQ Youth in Detroit: The Ruth Ellis Health & Wellness Center

Center for Health Care Strategies, Nonprofit Finance Fund, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities
10.2017
This case study explores a partnership between a youth social services agency and an integrated health care organization, which aims to meet the health and social service needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth experiencing systemic barriers to housing, health, and wellness.
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Health Care
Mental Health
Social Needs
Housing is a Health Intervention: Transitional Respite Care Program in Spokane
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Housing is a Health Intervention: Transitional Respite Care Program in Spokane

Center for Health Care Strategies, Nonprofit Finance Fund, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities
10.2017
This profile explores a collaboration among Catholic Charities Spokane, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center (part of the Providence Health & Services health system), and Volunteers of America that provides post-hospitalization care and tailored, coordinated services to homeless clients to give them a better chance at healing.
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Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs