Quick Guide
Definition: Collaborate with other agencies and organizations across sectors to amplify equity and address the root causes related to the environmental, social, and economic conditions which impact health (social determinants of health).
Why It Matters: Addressing the social determinants of health requires health departments and other related sectors pool resources and collectively advocate for policy change.
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Templates | Collaborative Health-A Health in All Policies Presentation | This customizable PowerPoint template helps to build support for Health in All Policies (HiAP). The package for this resource also includes a guide on how to support HiAP initiatives in government, which is a companion to the template. It is recommended that organizations review both before giving the presentation to internal or external partners. |
| Templates | Partnership Agreement Template | This customizable template helps partners think through their common purpose, roles, responsibilities, activities, and desired outcomes. It also provides recommendations for each section of the partnership agreement. |
| Trainings | Using Message Framing Tools to Build and Suistain Cross-Sector Partnerships | This training provides public health professionals with messaging tools for effective communication with other sectors. It describes what framing is and why it is important when communicating to external stakeholders. It takes about 30 minutes to complete and provides participants with a certificate upon completion. |
| Webinars | Health Equity in Cross Sector Partnerships | This training provides examples of cross sector partnerships and explains why these partnerships are essential to advancing health equity. |
| Webinars | Cross Sector Collaboration Making Partnerships Work for Your Community | This webinar provides real life examples of cross-sector partnerships along with resources and tools to strengthen these partnerships. |
| Webinars | Centering Equity in Multisector Collaborations | This webinar helps participants think through their values as they develop partnerships. Additionally, it details how to track equity in partnerships and how to integrate lived experience expertise into partnerships. |
| Webinars | Fostering Community Partnerships to Advance Health Equity | This webinar describes how the Alameda County Public Health Department has worked with the housing sector to advance population health. |
| Guides | Grassroots Organizations on Collaborating with Public Health Agencies | This guide describes how grassroots organizations and public health agencies can work together to advance health equity and racial justice. The document describes processes for bringing intentionality to agreements, leveraging community expertise, and integrating equity into organizational goals. Community spotlights are also included for each section, including one from Monterey County, California. |
| Guides | Initiating Cross- Sector Partnerships to Advance Population Health | This guide provides examples of cross-sector partnerships collaborating to address the social determinants of health. The document goes step by step into finding the right partner, creating a lasting relationship, and creating lasting goals within the collaboration. |
| Guides | Stanford Social Innovation Review-Cross Sector Leadership | This interactive guide covers several topics including the need for cross-sector leadership, essential skills for leaders, creating a culture of collaboration and establishing cross-sector networks. It also contains profiles of leaders across industries (e.g., business, non- profit, government etc.). |
| Guides | The Guide to Cross-Sector Collaboration | This guide provides actionable steps on how to find, build and develop cross-sector partnerships. |
| Frameworks | Prevention Institute: Collaboration Multiplier | Collaboration Multiplier is a framework and tool for analyzing collaborative efforts across sectors. It is designed to serve as a starting point for understanding the contributions of different fields and for building effective interdisciplinary efforts through partnership. |
| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | Kern County Health Equity Partnership's Subcommittee Day | The Kern Health Equity Partnership was founded and formalized during the first year of CERI, bringing together trusted community leaders, champions, and partners across sectors, to share space in listening, collaborating and to ensure work is continuously meeting the needs of their communities. Their aim is to expand access to quality health and improved the overall health of all Kern County Residents. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Trainings | An Overview of Public Health Reaching Across Sectors | This training course takes about 30 minutes to complete and discusses why communication is essential to sustaining cross-sector partnerships. |
| Webinars | Engaging Across Sectors and Disciplines to Build Community and Capacity for Health Equity | This webinar details why developing cross- sector partnerships are essential to advancing health equity. The webinar focuses on understanding the concept of health disparities, building a community, and case studies of partnering for equity. |
| Guides | Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide | This guide provides actionable steps for building effective partnerships. |
| Frameworks | Rural Health Networks and Coalitions Toolkit | This toolkit provides tips and strategies for developing partnerships in rural areas. The toolkit includes real life examples of networks, strategy brainstorms for developing networks, and how to evaluate and sustain these partnerships. Rural Resource |
| Articles | Supporting Change Agents Across Sectors to Improve Health and Equity in Rural Communities | This article describes how cross sector collaboration is important to improving health and equity in rural communities. Rural Resource. |
| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | The Live Well Humboldt Initiative | The Live Well Humboldt (LWH) initiative is centered around the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) priority areas (substance use, suicide prevention, housing instability and homelessness, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)). Equity goals are incorporated in the 2022-2027 CHIP, and Humboldt County is working to integrate them into the next Community Health Assessment (CHA). Previous results from this assessment have prompted them to strategize how to amplify equity and collaborate with other agencies across sectors. Humboldt County has contracted with professional equity consultants to provide trainings and technical assistance to dive deeper into co-development strategies. |
| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | Riverside County Partnerships | To lead equity efforts for Riverside University Health System – Public Health (RUHS-PH), a diverse Health Equity Team was established whose fulltime job is to improve health equity in Riverside County while engaging with the community and multi-sector partners. Initiatives they have spearheaded include: the Riverside County Health Coalition, the Equity and Justice Taskforce, Health Equity Policy Action Plan, the Advancing Health and Racial Equity Report, a Health Communications team, and the Community COVID-19 Impact Hub. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Examples | Supporting Safe and Affordable Housing in Alameda County, CA | The Alameda County Public Health Department serves as an example for how to work across sectors (e.g., housing) in order to advance population health. |
| Trainings | Promoting Health Equity by Uniting Sectors Around Shared Data | This webinar discusses best practices for sharing data across sectors in order to advance health equity. |
| Articles | Mobilizing Cross- Sector Collaborations to Improve Population Health in U.S. Rural Communities: A Qualitative Stud | This study provides four case studies of rural communities working to advance health equity through cross-sector partnerships and provides rural specific strategies. Rural Resource. |
| Articles | Improving Cross- Sector Collaborations in Place-Based Population Health Projects | This article provides a framework and recommendations on how to navigate cross-sector partnerships in complex population health projects. |
| Articles | Approaches for Overcoming Barriers to Cross- Sector Data Sharing | This study identifies challenges to cross-sector data sharing and the approaches used to overcome these challenges in the Mid-Ohio Farmacy, a partnership to address food insecurity. |