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

Publication
Community Workers Lend Human Connection To COVID-19 Response
This article highlights how systems are investing in workers who come from the communities they serve to meet patient needs that extend well beyond clinic walls.
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
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

Webinar
Insights from the Social Sector: A Cross-Sector Response to Health Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
This webinar features experiences and insights from two community-based organizations that have long helped their communities address health disparities and systemic inequities. Presenters shared actionable best practices for collaboration in this environment and reflected on opportunities for future structural change.
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
Pixels: Learning from Each Other
This virtual event features Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grantees sharing the work they are engaged in around cross-sector alignment: What is it? What does it mean? Why does it matter? How can we use these lessons in light of the current fight against COVID-19?
Complex Care
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Case Study
Home Together: Ensuring Babies Have a Place to Call Home
This case study highlights how the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Little Rock, Ark. nonprofit Our House have aligned to support mothers of young children facing homelessness and housing insecurity.
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs

Webinar
Why Cross-Sector Alignment Matters: Real Life Stories
This webinar features the people working in communities to better meet the needs of the people and places they serve. The panel shares their own personal challenges navigating complex systems and how they are now helping others.
Alignment 101
Complex Care
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
The Importance of Integrated Care Models That Address Medical, Behavioral, and Social Health Needs
This blog highlights Advancing Integrated Models, a new Center for Health Care Strategies initiative providing the opportunity to align the delivery of critical components of high-quality care for individuals with complex medical and social needs.
Complex Care
Health Care
Medicaid
Social Needs

Webinar
What Matters Most in Driving Cross-Sector Partnerships for Complex Populations
This webinar highlights how to establish cross-sector partnerships, using the work of Adventist Health’s Project Restoration and the Camden Coalition as case studies.
Alignment 101
Complex Care

Publication
Forging Health Care and Social Service Partnerships Through Data Sharing: The Camden Coalition Health Information Exchange
This blog highlights the Camden Coalition Health Information Exchange—a collaborative data-sharing platform created to improve care delivery and give clinical and non-medical partners real-time access to important medical information for patients.
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs