Cross-sector collaboration is a term used to describe a process where various community organizations come together to collectively focus their expertise and resources on a complex issue of importance to a community they serve. A cross-sector collaborative may address issues of physical health, behavioral health, and social determinants of health such as transportation, housing, and food insecurity that are impacting the health of the community.

Improving the health of your community requires that the public health department, healthcare institutions, and other community stakeholders providing health and health-related services break out of their comfort zones and work collaboratively. Building a successful cross-sector collaborative requires that the potential organizations in the collaborative share resources, funding, and expertise while retaining their respective autonomy.

In this archived webinar, cross-sector collaboration experts from the Public Health Foundation (PHF) discuss:

• Why many organizations are partnering now to achieve shared objectives
• Tools you can use to build and sustain a cross-sector collaboration
• Examples of cross-sector collaborations and their impact on the community
• Resources to help you address common community health challenges

• Identify three key factors for cross-sector collaboration success
• Identify three common factors that contribute to an unsuccessful partnership
• Describe tools that are readily available to begin building a collaborative
• Describe examples of successful cross-sector collaborations in action

Speakers:

• Ron Bialek, MPP, President, Public Health Foundation
• Jack Moran, MBA, PhD, CMC, CQM, Senior Quality Advisor, Public Health Foundation
• Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation

• On-Site Services Led by PHF Experts
• Launching a Cross-Sector Collaborative
• Mapping Solutions with Population Health Driver Diagrams
• Transformational Leadership Training
• Tools
• Readiness Matrix for Cross-Sector Collaboration
• Cross-Sector Collaboration for Improving the Health of Communities: You Can’t Do It Alone (Blog Post)
• Using Driver Diagrams to Improve Population Health
• Collaborating with Stakeholders to Combat the Opioid Crisis - Population health driver diagram developed with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Academic Health Department Learning Community
• Community Stakeholder Services Map
• Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration (Book)
• Transforming Community Health through Leadership (eBook)
• Trainings and Webinars
• Cross-sector trainings on the TRAIN Learning Network
• Building Cross-Sector Collaborations to Promote Effective Antibiotic Use in Inpatient, Outpatient, and Long-Term Care Settings (Archived Webinar)