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

Webinar
Financing Coordinated Medical and Social Services for Patients with Psychosis
This webinar presents a decision support tool designed to help health plans and service providers estimate the total costs of care and implement integrated payment strategies for health and social services needed by patients newly diagnosed with psychosis.
Health Care
Mental Health
Social Needs

Webinar
In Pursuit of Seamless Integration: The East New York Health Hub
This webinar features a discussion on how the East New York Health Hub partners with patients in their journey to recovery using culturally responsive engagement strategies that are “outside the box” of traditional care.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Mental Health
Social Needs

Brief
Cross-Sector Alignment and the Response to COVID-19: What Can We Learn from Research on Cross-Sector Alignment?
This brief examines factors supporting cross-sector alignment; presents findings relevant to the response to the COVID crisis; and presents challenges and response opportunities related to several key elements of the Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change: sectors, shared purpose, governance, finance, data, community voice, equity, capacity, and urgency.
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Interrupting Violence From Within the Trauma Unit and Well Beyond
This article highlights how MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Community Violence Intervention Program is providing short- and long-term support to victims of violence, hoping to reduce the number of repeat visitors.
Health Care
Mental Health
Social Needs

Case Study
Aligning in Action: The Community Caring Collaborative
This case study examines the Community Caring Collaborative in Maine and how it has become a backbone organization for regional efforts that holistically improve the health and lives of community members.
Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Beyond the Camden Coalition’s Randomized Controlled Trial: Lessons for the Complex Care Field on Addressing Patient Needs
This interview highlights critical opportunities for improving care management interventions that target highly medically and socially complex populations, including community-based and cross-sector partnerships and investments.
Complex Care
Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
After Prison, Healthy Lives Built On Access To Care And Community
This article details how a North Carolina program helps recently released inmates connect to health care, social services, and support.
Chronic Disease
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
Financing Integrated Health and Social Services for Populations with Mental Illness
This webinar features a research project that addresses the barriers to adoption of payment innovations that can be accomplished by combining economics and health information technology to significantly improve population mental health.
Health Care
Mental Health
Social Needs

Publication
Finding Shelter and Support Along the Road to Better Health
This article explores how Sacramento is using Medicaid funds to help its homeless population find housing under California’s Whole Person Care program.
Complex Care
Health Care
Medicaid
Mental Health
Social Needs

Publication
To Improve Outcomes, Health Systems Invest in Affordable Housing
This article details how health care networks in Portland, Oregon are helping expand access to stable housing and supportive services.
Complex Care
Health Care
Medicaid
Mental Health
Social Needs