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

Publication
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

Publication
“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

Brief
Rethinking Value: Perspectives on the Benefits of Cross-Sector Collaboratives Serving Populations with Complex Health and Social Needs
This brief explores how different organizations and community members define and measure the value of cross-sector collaboration by convening key informant focus groups with organizations and also with affiliated community members involved in cross-sector efforts.
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs

Publication
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

Publication
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

Report
Conceptualizing Performance Measurement for Social Care Interventions: An Issue Brief for State Medicaid Agencies
This issue brief explores opportunities for state Medicaid agencies to implement performance measures with contracted entities that could strengthen their growing interest in social care and highlights several barriers to those applications.
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Services

Brief
Applying the Aligning in Crisis Principles
These briefs present principles and practical questions that government agencies and local fiscal intermediaries, like local wellness funds and health-oriented community collaboratives, can use to guide planning for use of COVID-19 recovery funds.
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

Report
Exploring Consumer Engagement Experiences
This report provides insight and guidance for how complex care organizations—and others—can and should build authentic and mutually beneficial partnerships with their consumer stakeholders.
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs

Case Study
Aligning Up Close: A Community’s Response to a Pandemic
This case study highlights how Elevate Health, an Accountable Communities of Health organization in Pierce County, Washington, partnered with clinical services, social services, and public health to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Complex Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Community Health Workers and Peers are Essential to Counties’ COVID-19 Response
This blog features how community care workers and peers from Whole Person Care pilots in Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, and Ventura, California, are helping those most vulnerable to COVID-19 stay healthy and safe.
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs