Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Webinar
Legal Considerations for Data Sharing
This webinar shares lessons learned in navigating legal considerations while establishing cross-sector data sharing partnerships across the nation.
Data
Alignment 101
Report
Coordinated Whole-Person Care That Addresses Social Determinants of Health
This report summarizes approaches and lessons learned from five Data Across Sectors for Health grantees with respect to multi-sector data sharing for care coordination.
Data
Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Developing Data Systems for Care Coordination Using Patient-Centered Approaches
This webinar features developing a system that integrates data from sectors such as medical, behavioral, social services, and education to improve care coordination for special needs populations.
Data
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs
Report
Emerging Strategies for Integrating Health and Housing: Innovations to Sustain, Expand, and Replicate
This study examines emerging interventions that integrate housing and health services for lowincome people, with a focus on interventions where health care organizations have taken a significant leadership role.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Social Needs
Report
A Playbook for Fostering Hospital-Community Partnerships to Build a Culture of Health
This playbook provides a framework for cultivating effective partnerships between hospitals and community organizations, with valuable and practical tools, easily accessible worksheets and actionable strategies to build consensus and accountability within the partnership.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Publication
How Multi-Sector Health Partnerships Evolve
This blog highlights how partnerships are springing up across the nation, bringing new people and their diverse experiences to the table, including sectors that have not traditionally considered health to be part of their mission, like community development, education, environment, transportation, business, housing, and law.
Data
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Brief
Visualizing Health Equity: One Size Does Not Fit All Infographic
This infographic visualizes health equity by showing how thinking the same approach to expand health opportunities will work universally is like expecting everyone to be able to ride the same bike.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Webinar
Multi-Sector Population Health Activities Reduce Income-Related Disparities in Life Expectancy
This presentation highlights research linking income and life expectancy data with the 1998-2014 National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems to examine whether the existence and strength of multi-sector population health improvement activities influence income-related disparities in life expectancy over time.
Data
Shared Purpose
Complex Care
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
Developing Mature Partnerships to Meet the Challenges of Our Time
This blog provides insight and commentary on how multi-sector partnerships advance through developmental phases, from formation through maturity, and particular competencies that drive momentum and the pitfalls that stall progress tend to change.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Webinar
Building Trust for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration
This webinar features perspectives on the importance of building trust when embarking on data-sharing partnerships to help communities address the social determinants that negatively impact the health of people with complex health and social needs.
Data
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Social Needs