Cross-sector partnerships are more essential than ever in the current health care environment. Multiple new initiatives, including California’s statewide Medicaid program transformation, CalAIM, have forced the health ecosystem to make complex shifts toward expanding and deepening partnerships between social services and health care organizations.

In this webinar, hosted by the California Improvement Network (CIN) and led by Dustin Harper from the Institute on Aging and Amy Scribner from CIN partner Health Plan of San Mateo, we hear how a social service organization and a health care organization collaborated to advance community-based services for Medi-Cal members with complex health needs. They discuss their challenges around developing a mutually beneficial and sustainable funding model to support services provided by Institute on Aging for clients in both home- and community-based settings, what they did to overcome challenges together, and their advice for others encountering a similar partnership and funding dynamics.

The complete webinar recording is now available below:

This webinar is intended for individuals who are actively participating in cross-sector partnerships and are looking for advice on how to build a mutually beneficial and sustainable funding model within a social service and health care partnership.

This webinar helps viewers to:

• Gain a deeper understanding of the intricacies of overcoming challenges within partnerships between social services and health care organizations.
• Learn strategies to develop and maintain a mutually beneficial and sustainable funding model with a community health partnership.

The speakers are:

• Dustin Harper, chief strategy officer, Institute on Aging
• Amy Scribner, chief health officer, Health Plan of San Mateo

Related resources:

• CIN podcast on effective partnerships
• Equitable Co-design in Health Care: How to Incorporate Community Voices to Impact Systems

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