Resource Library

The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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Making Aligning Work: National Experts Reflect on Context and Outcomes for Aligning
Brief

Making Aligning Work: National Experts Reflect on Context and Outcomes for Aligning

Aligning Systems for Health
02.03.2020
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures themes, lessons, and trends around the context and outcomes of aligning efforts from interviews and sense-making sessions with catalysts, researchers, and funders who have been involved with efforts to align the three sectors.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
PACT-STL Evaluation: Culture, Context, and Community Participation
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PACT-STL Evaluation: Culture, Context, and Community Participation

Systems for Action
06.22.2022
This webinar presents an innovative model for preventing child maltreatment and adverse child experiences by aligning health and social services for vulnerable families in St. Louis.
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Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Trust Measurement Questions
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Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Trust Measurement Questions

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
08.02.2021
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.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Power Measurement Questions
Brief

Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Power Measurement Questions

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
08.02.2021
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.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Understanding Patients’ Perspectives on Social Risk Screening
Webinar

Understanding Patients’ Perspectives on Social Risk Screening

Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network
03.03.2021
This podcast episode explores research studies examining patients’ and caregivers’ perspectives about the acceptability of social risk screening in the context of clinical care settings and the common question, “Should I screen for a social need I can’t address?”
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Health Care
Social Needs
Distributing Leadership to Transform Health Ecosystems
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Distributing Leadership to Transform Health Ecosystems

ReThink Health
01.08.2019
This blog post examines distributed leadership–the practice of sharing leadership among many players–and how it plays out in the context of transforming regional health ecosystems.
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Alignment 101
Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: State Lessons
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Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: State Lessons

Data Across Sectors for Health
11.2022
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Health Care
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Population Health Innovation Lab
Brief

Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Population Health Innovation Lab

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
12.03.2021
This brief highlights measures for aligning that health-oriented multisector collaboratives can use to assess their progress across the elements of the Framework for Aligning Sectors.
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Alignment 101
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Community Voice Measurement Questions
Brief

Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Community Voice Measurement Questions

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
08.02.2021
This brief identifies successful community voice strategies and how those strategies are supported.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Aligning Systems with Communities to Advance Equity through Shared Measurement
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Aligning Systems with Communities to Advance Equity through Shared Measurement

American Institutes for Research
01.2021
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.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs