Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results

Case Study
Aligning in Action: VAAACares
This case study highlights VAAACares, a statewide Area Agency on Aging collaboration delivering comprehensive care coordination services for insurers and health systems.
Alignment 101
COVID-19
Health Care
Social Needs

Webinar
Clinic-Based Community Organizing to Improve Health Equity
This podcast episode highlights using community organizing in clinical settings to help advance health equity.
Health Care
Social Needs

Publication
Moving to Center: BUILD’s Journey to Advance Health Equity
This publication examines how the BUILD Health Challenge has pursued the bold goal of improving health for all through cross-sector, upstream, and community-driven approaches.
Health Care
Social Needs

Publication
Strengthening Health & Housing Collaboration in Louisiana
The publication shares findings from the New Orleans Healthy Homes Regional Convening focused on enhancing healthy homes interventions to demonstrate the impact of home-based interventions and home improvements on healthcare utilization and outcomes.
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
Building a System of Care for Children with Complex Medical and Social Needs
This webinar presents a unique care delivery model in which healthcare professionals provide transitional and respite care for children with medical complexities, serving as a crucial bridge from hospital to home.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
Humana’s Bold Goal: A Health Plan-Sponsored Population Health Initiative to Address Social Determinants of Health
This webinar examines how a health plan-sponsored initiative can stimulate substantial changes in community-level organizational networks with the potential to benefit enrolled plan members as well as the public at large.
Health Care

Webinar
Rapid-Cycle Research Early Findings: Industrial Areas Foundation Northwest
This video summarizes early findings from research evaluating three different relational organization projects in Missoula, Mont., Portland, Ore., and Spokane, Wash., with a focus on how relational organizing impacted community response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Care
Social Needs

Brief
Aligning Across Sectors: Key Considerations for Measuring Equity
This brief provides guidance on what indicators may be helpful for measuring equity in individual collaboratives or across aligning contexts.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Making Community Voice: A Review of the Literature
This brief explores how effectively community voice is incorporated and measured in cross-sector initiatives.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Maximizing Federal COVID-19 Recovery Investments for Resilience and Equity: Examples From Across the Nation
This brief provides examples of community innovations using Aligning in Crisis' four guiding principles for a resilient and equitable recovery to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs