Overview
This reference guide provides practical guidance for community-based organizations (CBOs) developing or strengthening partnerships with health care organizations. It focuses on organizational decisions, relationships, and resources that can help CBOs participate effectively in cross-sector partnerships.
What the Resource Covers
The guide draws on focus groups with CBOs and interviews with health care organizations across the United States that have experience working in cross-sector partnerships. Participating CBOs represented a range of services, including food services, housing, health literacy, maternal health, transportation and access to care. The guide organizes lessons into four major areas that CBOs should consider before and during a partnership and provides practical tips, tools, and resources to support each area.
Key Takeaways for Implementation
Successful partnerships require CBOs and health care organizations to understand each other’s goals, capabilities, and operating environments. CBOs can strengthen their readiness for partnership by clarifying what they can offer, understanding the expectations of health care partners, planning for the resources needed to participate, and establishing processes that support communication and collaboration.
Who May Find This Resource Useful
This resource may be especially useful for CBO leaders and health care organizations developing new partnerships or strengthening existing collaborations to address patients’ non-medical needs.
Resource Type: Tools & Toolkits.
Topic Areas: Community-based organizations, health care partnerships, cross-sector collaboration, program implementation.
Population or Setting: Community-based organizations and health care organizations.
Publication Date: 2024.
Source: National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
