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

Publication
Regional Leaders Learn How to Invest Resources to Ensure Health and Well-Being
This blog examines the framework used by ReThink Health’s Portfolio Design for Healthier Regions to guide stewards in recruiting local funders to invest in cross-sector community health programs.
Health Care
Social Needs

Report
Promising Practices: A Companion Guide for Principles to Advance Equity through Shared Measurement
This guide helps partners have open discussions about roles and how to promote equitable involvement of all who have a stake in the shared measurement effort.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Report
Aligning Systems with Communities to Advance Equity through Shared Measurement
This report outlines five principles to inform measurement that effectively aligns systems’ actions with the needs and priorities of the communities those systems serve, particularly communities that historically have been harmed the most by inequities.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Developing the Framework for Aligning Sectors
This blog outlines the key findings from Aligning Systems' for Health's 2020 review of cross-sector alignment as well as noteworthy changes to the program's design.
Alignment 101

Webinar
Linking Medical Homes to Social Service Systems for Medicaid Populations
This webinar outlines how implementing a web-based communication and care management platform supporting electronic communication between patient-centered medical homes and social service providers affects care for Medicaid patients.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Medicaid
Social Needs

Brief
Making Aligning Work: Adaptive Factors
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures themes, lessons, and trends around the adaptive factors of aligning systems including trust, equity, power dynamics, and community voice.
Alignment 101

Publication
Building Capacity of Early Stage Journeys – Reflections on DASH Mentor Program 2.0
This blog examines the lessons learned from Data Across Sectors for Health's Mentor Program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alignment 101
COVID-19

Case Study
Aligning in Action: Healthier Together
This case study explores a resident-led funding approach designed to solve local communities’ most complex health issues, neighborhood by neighborhood in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

Case Study
Aligning in Action: Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement
This case study examines how the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement uses a collective impact approach to implement its 28-year strategy to reduce health disparities and create place-based systems change.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Community Health Workers and Peers are Essential to Counties’ COVID-19 Response
This blog features how community care workers and peers from Whole Person Care pilots in Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, and Ventura, California, are helping those most vulnerable to COVID-19 stay healthy and safe.
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs