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

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

Publication
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

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
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

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

Webinar
Can Subsidized Transportation Options Slow Diabetes Progression?
This webinar examines low-cost ways of improving transportation opportunities for low-income urban diabetic patients, including providing public transit vouchers, a cash benefit, or mobility counseling compared with usual medical care alone.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Ensuring That Money Intended for Health Equity is Well Spent
publication highlights how a national framework to measure equity can help state and local jurisdictions employ American Rescue Plan Act funds as intended — and hold city, county and state leaders accountable for focusing on equity in their decision-making and programmatic choices.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings
This brief presents lessons learned about the community partnership process from a series of interviews and a focus group with community members engaging in cross-sector collaboratives.
Alignment 101

Brief
Community Member Experiences with Collaboratives: Preliminary Findings
This brief presents findings from interviews and a focus group with 15 community members who have participated in, and in some cases been affected by, cross-sector collaboratives in their communities.
Alignment 101