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The brief examines the conceptualization and measurement of trust in the context of aligning efforts and provides questions that are superlatively important for understanding and advancing aligning efforts.

This brief poses questions for researchers and practitioners to consider when developing a strategy for measuring health equity, racial equity, and racial health equity as outcomes of an aligning endeavor.

This brief examines the conceptualization and measurement of power dynamics in the context of aligning efforts and provides questions that are superlatively important for understanding and advancing aligning efforts.

This brief focuses on equity as it relates to the individual inner elements of the alignment framework: shared purpose, governance, data, finance, trust, power, and community voice.

This brief identifies successful community voice strategies and how those strategies are supported.

This case study highlights the Communities That Care Coalition in Franklin County, Massachusetts, an evidence-based, prevention-science program that guides communities through a five-phase change process to promote healthy youth development, improve youth outcomes, and reduce problem behaviors.

This brief summarizes the impact of relational organizing on community response to the COVID-19 pandemic in three different communities: Missoula, Montana; Portland, Oregon; and Spokane, Washington.

This brief summarizes community responses to COVID-19 and families’ experiences accessing resources before and after the pandemic.

This case study features how the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center is showing proof of concept that universal screening for social determinants of health and high-risk referral through an electronic platform are both feasible and beneficial to addressing patients’ social needs.

This case study highlights the MLPB (formerly Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston), which equips communities of care with legal education and problem-solving insights to foster prevention, health equity, and human-centered system change.