Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Webinar
Bridging Trust and Community in Cross-Sector Alignment
What can individuals and institutions do to build trust as a foundation for creating community connections and engaging citizens? This webinar on December 17 examines why intentionally focusing on trust is critical to maintaining connections, building community, and leveraging success.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
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.
Data
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Building Trust for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration
This webinar features perspectives on the importance of building trust when embarking on data-sharing partnerships to help communities address the social determinants that negatively impact the health of people with complex health and social needs.
Data
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Social Needs
Report
Building Trust for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration
This report explores ways to create and strengthen data partnerships, including identifying shared needs, finding internal champions, building on existing partnerships, understanding that building collaborative relationships takes time, tailoring communication for the appropriate audience, and adapting and implementing existing technology to meet organizations’ needs.
Data
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Social Needs
Webinar
Good Governance Across Sectors
On October 14, a panel of experts explained how they’ve found success in governing cross-sector relationships with power dynamics, community voice, trust, and other factors at play.
Governance
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Measurement Questions for Equity as an Adaptive Factor
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.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
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.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Brief
Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan
This brief explores how stewards in Palm Beach County, Florida and a five-town region in southeast Michigan determined how to reallocate resources to create more equitable regional systems for health and well-being.
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States
This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs