Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results

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Networks of Support Help Patients Navigate Complex Systems
This publication examines how a health system in Minnesota empowers patients by giving them resources to address their health-related social needs.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

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Development and Validation of a Measure to Assess Readiness to Advance Health and Equity: The Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation
This publication reports on the development and validation of the Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation - a tool that allows groups to directly collect and use data about their multi-sector collaborative by creating a shared point of reference for where partners are at in their stage of development across multiple factors.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

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A Foundation For Health And Well-Being: Meaningful Employment
This publication explores how Employment and Community First Choices, a program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, created and paid for by TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid program, helps participants work and live independently.
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs

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Patients Lift Their Voices To Advance Maternal Health
This publication compiles insights from EleVATE, a program that offers group-based prenatal care with a curriculum designed by and for Black women. EleVATE explores whether changing the way clinicians interact with patients can, in itself, improve outcomes and equity.
Health Equity

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Best of ARM: Evaluating Engagement in Multi-Sector Community Health Networks: The Case of Tribal Organizations
This publication evaluates variation in public health system engagement with tribal organizations across a national sample of communities and identifies predictors of engagement.
Health Care
Public Health

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“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations
This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs

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Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022
This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs
Public Health
Social Needs

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Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees Through Managed Care: Lessons and Promising Practices from the Field
This publication describes the perspectives of Medicaid managed care organizations representatives on the lessons learned and emerging promising practices from addressing social determinants of health among their Medicaid enrollees.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs

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Study Finds Room to Boost Maternal and Child Health Participation in Health Impact Assessments
This publication exmaines a study showing how health impact assessments provide an action-oriented framework for maternal and child healthcare professionals to become involved in cross-sector collaboration to improve health equity.
Complex Care
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

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The State of the Field of Complex Care 2022
This publication outlines trends that impacted the field of complex care on the national level in 2021.
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services