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

Brief
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Community Voice Measurement Questions
This brief identifies successful community voice strategies and how those strategies are supported.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Community Voice In Cross-Sector Alignment: Concepts and Strategies from a Scoping Review of the Health Collaboration Literature
This article addresses a gap in the literature with a systematic scoping review of research on health-oriented cross-sector collaboration and community voice.
Alignment 101

Webinar
Community Voices Panel: Shifting Power
This webinar on April 1 explores ways to empower and elevate the voice of community members in cross-sector aligning efforts.
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
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Determining and Measuring Community Goals and Needs
This brief highlights recent research on community voice in aligning efforts to better understand the process of establishing community goals and needs.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings
This brief presents lessons learned about the community partnership process from a series of interviews and a focus group with community members engaging in cross-sector collaboratives.
Alignment 101

Publication
Cross-Sector Collaboration for Vulnerable Population Reduces Utilization and Strengthens Community Partnerships
This publication outlines Project Restoration's approach to cross-sector collaboration with a shared population of high-utilizing community members, describes the process and outcomes of the collaboration, provides strategies to mitigate challenges that arise during collaboration, and offers insights to inform similar initiatives in communities nationwide.
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs

Webinar
Community Health Workers As Community Connectors and Care Team Supervisors
This webinar features a health systems' community health worker (CHW) workforce supervision model, tools organizations can use to implement similar models, and lessons learned in the decade of integrating CHWs into complex care teams.
Health Care
Social Needs

Brief
Community Voice: Guiding Principles Across the Spectrum of Engagement

Brief
Building Effective Health System-Community Partnerships: Lessons from the Field
This brief shares considerations for health care organizations and government entities seeking to build effective partnerships with the individuals and communities they serve to better address their health and social needs.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs