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Build Your Network

Knowing who to call is half of the battle. Community-based organizations (CBOs) deliver a wide variety of essential social services across their diverse service areas either directly or through a network of service providers. Build Your Network is here to help CBOs learn how to assess these networks and fill any gaps as a valuable partner for health care organizations and their patients. Topic areas covered include:

Understanding the social services provider network adequacy requirements of potential health care partners.
Key metrics to manage in your social services provider networks.
How to market your social services provider networks to health care organizations.

Establishing administrative and billing processes.
Opportunities and pitfalls in managing a social services provider networks under contract with health care organizations.

Resources

Intermediate Advanced

Intermediate to Advanced Article

ACL Business Acumen Case Study: Florida Network Evolves from Regional Collaborative to Statewide Network

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has released new resources from the Business Acumen Initiative to provide background ...

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Intermediate Advanced

Intermediate to Advanced Article

ACL Business Acumen Case Study: Building the Western New York Integrated Care Collaborative

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has released new resources from the Business Acumen Initiative to provide background ...

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Intermediate Advanced

Intermediate to Advanced Article

ACL Business Acumen Case Study: Winning the Contract: New Revenue Stream for Community Organizations

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) has released new resources from the Business Acumen Initiative to provide background ...

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Basic Intermediate Advanced

Basic to Intermediate to Advanced Assessment Tool

Network Business Structure Readiness Review

This readiness review document, produced as part of the Administration for Community Living’s (ACL) Business Acumen Learning Collaborative, ...

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Basic Intermediate

Basic to Intermediate Report

Final Report: Western New York (WNY) Integrated Care Collaborative Community-Based Integrated Care Networks

In recent years, policy makers have changed how they think about health care and long-term services and supports. ...

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Intermediate Advanced

Intermediate to Advanced Toolkit

Home & Community‐ Based Services Brokerage Design Guide: A road map for establishing a brokerage for home and community‐based services

For years, health care and social supports have operated as two different systems of care, often resulting in ...

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Basic Intermediate Advanced

Basic to Intermediate to Advanced Landing Page

National Council on Aging (NCOA) Roadmap to Community-Integrated Health Care

The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has developed the “Roadmap to Community-Integrated Health Care“, a vast compendium of ...

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Basic Intermediate

Basic to Intermediate Webinar

Integrated Care Models: Landing the Contract and Beyond

On this 2017 webinar, part of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging’s (n4a) Region VII meeting, ...

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Advanced

Advanced Sample Legal Document

Sample Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Between a Lead Community-Based Organization (CBO) and its Subcontractors

Produced by the National Council on Aging (NCOA), this resource is a sample Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Elder ...

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Advanced

Advanced Sample Legal Document

Sample State License Business Agreement for Evidence-Based Program Data-Sharing Among CBOs

Produced by the National Council on Aging (NCOA), this resource is a sample Business Agreement between Elder Services ...

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