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

Brief
Making Aligning Work: National Experts Reflect on Context and Outcomes for Aligning
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.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
PACT-STL Evaluation: Culture, Context, and Community Participation
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.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Trust Measurement Questions
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.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Power Measurement Questions
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.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
Understanding Patients’ Perspectives on Social Risk Screening
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?”
Health Care
Social Needs

Publication
Distributing Leadership to Transform Health Ecosystems
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.
Alignment 101

Brief
Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: State Lessons
Health Care

Brief
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Population Health Innovation Lab
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.
Alignment 101

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

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