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This resource provides a step-by-step process for organizing and preparing, planning and prioritizing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating, and sustaining a primary care and public health partnership project.

This report provides a framework to facilitate collaborative working relationships between the public health and health care sectors. The framework includes tactics and actionable strategies to support several elements of collaboration: governance structure, financing plan, cross-sector prevention models, data-sharing strategy, and performance measurement and evaluation.

This report highlights themes and lessons learned that can inform new approaches to advancing community health. Through ARCH, Nonprofit Finance Fund partnered with three networks to explore what it takes for CBO networks to come together around a shared vision for partnering with health care.

This resource outlines common partnership elements and establishes a framework to describe integration between community-based and health care organizations.

A step-by-step guide for health care delivery and local health departments to partner their efforts to understand and collaboratively address community health needs.

This infographic provides a quick overview of how place-based investing can create sustainable returns and strong communities. The graphic showcases a holistic capital approach in action.

This is the third resource in the Capital Absorption Framework series on communities; this brief looks at the enabling environment where community investment deals are created and how to strengthen this environment.

This is the second resource in the Capital Absorption Framework series on communities; this brief defines a pipeline while exploring why pipelines are important for expanding the community investment system.

This is the first in the Capital Absorption Framework series on communities. This first brief discusses identifying shared priorities between communities to aid in investment.

This toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Catholic Health Association, is designed to help health care organizations look at their resources in a different light, expand their efforts to support their communities, and maximize their impact on community health by harnessing the power of their investment capital.

This toolkit outlines a range of strategies for how health systems are using their investment assets to help address the resource gaps that keep communities from achieving better health and well-being.

This toolkit focuses on developing health care community partnership strategies that can help expand health care services, eliminate inequities and improve health equity.

This toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Catholic Health Association, is designed to help health care organizations look at their resources in a different light, expand their efforts to support their communities, and maximize their impact on community health by harnessing the power of their investment capital.

Multi-sectoral collaboration between governments, businesses, non-profit organizations, and people with lived/living experience of poverty has been recognized as a core principle of effective poverty-reduction work since the establishment of Vibrant Communities in 2002. This guide seeks to further support the inclusion of these diverse voices as an integral part of reducing and eliminating poverty.

This guide is intended as a resource for effective dialogue about work with communities, with the overarching goal of beginning to collectively explore the vision, assets and commonalities that will help build a movement for positive and lasting social change towards a more just and equitable society.

In the 2021 Annual Disability Equality Index (DEI) findings, we share the tangible ways participating companies are bringing people with disabilities into this new economy to drive inclusion and equality. The results from this report index indicate more business across industries each year view the DEI as a valuable tool.

The role of the physical environment in communication between health-care professionals and persons with communication problems is a neglected area. This study provides an overview of factors in the physical environment that play a role in communication during conversations between people who are communication vulnerable and health-care professionals.

This article looks at how places like hospitals and health care centers, where mobility and accessibility should be a primary goal, are lacking. It provides some background on disability environments and the adjustments made by the time of publication. It also looks at physical access to health care facilities and access to information for people with multiple cognitive disabilities.

This article offers a much needed path to equity in healthcare. It amplifies the fact that measured data allows for dedicated improvements and changes to occur and engaging communities and obtaining their feedback and needs is integral to implementing effective, lasting change.

This white paper provides guidance on how health care organizations can reduce health disparities related to racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.

This toolkit offers various forms of media and tools that highlight community perspectives on issues and where the AAMC Center for Health Justice's members can improve based on these community insights.

The authors conducted a literature review of academic, foundation, and government publications focusing on sociocultural barriers to care, the level of the health care system at which a given barrier occurs, and cultural competence efforts that address these barriers. A framework of organizational, structural, and clinical cultural competence interventions can facilitate the elimination of these disparities and improve care for all Americans.

Implementing cultural competence in health care is critical. Learn about the latest frameworks and practical approaches to ensure your organization is providing equitable care to all patients.

This resource analyzes and lists ADA compliance laws in relation to healthcare centers. They touch on reducing financial barriers to make these accesibility changes and increasing awareness for providers through training.

This website offers a resource library to explore resources on quality and equity in patient care, particularly disparities in leadership, structural equity and equity in quality of health care.