CROSS-SYSTEM COLLABORATION

Co-Designing Solutions A collaborative approach in which community members are treated as equal contributors in the design process.

Co-Located and Integrated Services, Access to Services The provision of treatment and support services in a manner that increases opportunities to receive services and care coordination and decreases geographic barriers and duplicative services.

Collaborative Structures: Coalitions, Task Forces, and Coordinating Councils The ways organizations come together for a shared purpose and define how they will communicate and engage both formally and informally to work together and make improvements.

Information Sharing and Care Coordination

The intentional exchange of case level and system level information, as appropriate, through memorandums of understanding, data exchanges, or other formal or informal communications.

Shared Funding Aggregating available funds aimed at creating impact in defined areas of mutual interest.

Shared Successes The recognition that progress is the result of partnerships and collaboration as opposed to a single individual or organization and acknowledging both small wins and milestone achievements within collaborations and publicly.

Cross-Training

The deliberate provision of professional development where multiple system professionals jointly receive the same information on topics of mutual interest for the purpose of cultivating common knowledge and moving the system toward shared outcomes.

Data Collection, Analysis, and Sharing

The act of identifying information that is needed to answer questions of interest, making sense of what those data mean and providing that information to entities without direct access to the data.

Shared Vision for Safe and Healthy Communities A consensus among stakeholders about what they want to create and accomplish together that reflects a sense of shared purpose.