One strategy to increase access to service coordination is to form partnerships between disability, aging, health, and housing organizations that already provide some form of service coordination in the community. Such partnerships bring together the capabilities and funding streams of multiple sectors.
The resources below provide insights into and suggestions for building partnerships to expand and sustain service coordination so that older adults and people with disabilities have ready access to service coordination no matter where they live.
- Expanding Access to Service Coordination: Two Models of Braiding Funding: webinar featuring two models for braiding funding streams across sectors to maximize the use of existing resources and broaden access to service coordination in a sustainable way
- Health and Housing: Introduction to Cross-Sector Collaboration: background on the health and housing sectors, including common language, core programs, and current opportunities for cross-sector collaboration for state leaders
- Medicaid-Housing Related Services and Partnerships: The 2016–2019 Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program (IAP): program site with materials from technical assistance for three cohorts of state Medicaid-housing agency partnerships, including tracks for supporting housing tenancy
- Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program State Medicaid-Housing Agency Partnership Toolkit: toolkit to assist states as they consider systems-change activities to better integrate health care and housing