Public health departments face limited budgets and personnel resources, challenging their ability to protect the health of the communities they serve. Resource-sharing is beneficial for health departments that believe by working with partners – pooling resources, sharing staff, expertise, funds and programs – across their organizational boundaries – they can accomplish more than they could […]
The Center’s Spectrum of Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing Arrangements identifies four main types of CJS arrangements. Generally, moving from left to right along the Spectrum, as the level of service integration increases, the level of jurisdictional autonomy decreases, and implementation becomes more complex, as can governance. The governance model, financial structure and decision-making process can be different […]
Cross-jurisdictional sharing (CJS) arrangements can vary depending on state and local characteristics of the sites involved. The Cross-jurisdictional Sharing Map illustrates a broad range of CJS arrangements that have taken place across the country. Click on a state to learn more about CJS in each state. While the map does not currently include all CJS […]