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The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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Aligning in Crisis: Practical Insights to Seize Opportunity
Brief

Aligning in Crisis: Practical Insights to Seize Opportunity

Aligning in Crisis, Georgia Health Policy Center, George Washington University
05.21.2021
This brief discusses key learnings from the Aligning in Crisis' first convening of surveillance partners.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services
Collaboratively Addressing Food Insecurity During COVID-19 in Urban Environments
Webinar

Collaboratively Addressing Food Insecurity During COVID-19 in Urban Environments

National Center for Complex Health & Social Needs
05.20.2021
This webinar examines the strategies of collaboratives in Trenton, New Jersey and Portland, Oregon that address acute food insecurity in urban environments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Aligning Healthcare, Public Health and Social Services: A Scoping Review of the Role of Purpose, Governance, Finance and Data
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Aligning Healthcare, Public Health and Social Services: A Scoping Review of the Role of Purpose, Governance, Finance and Data

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
05.20.2021
This publication in Health and Social Care in the Community reviews a study confirming the importance of shared purpose, financing, data, and governance for the success of health-oriented, cross-sector collaboration and improvement in population-level health outcomes.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Addressing Systems for Health: Health Care, Public Health and Social Services
Webinar

Addressing Systems for Health: Health Care, Public Health and Social Services

Systems for Action, Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
05.19.2021
This webinar reviews Aligning Systems for Health's mission to align sectors for health and discuss collaborative efforts between their Center and the Systems for Action program office.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Aligning in Action: Denver Area Agency on Aging
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Aligning in Action: Denver Area Agency on Aging

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
05.12.2021
This case study describes how the Denver Regional Council of Government’s Area Agency on Aging (AAA) expanded its existing network to become the first AAA in the nation to lead an Accountable Health Community.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Aligning in Crisis: Innovations to Meet Opportunity
Report

Aligning in Crisis: Innovations to Meet Opportunity

Aligning in Crisis, George Washington University, Georgia Health Policy Center
05.12.2021
This report describes how the Aligning Systems for Health project team is operationalizing the Advancing Equity in Pandemic Response and Recovery Framework, shares initial patterns seen in the examples, and suggests future directions.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services
How Health Center Care Teams Can Address Health and Housing for Patients Involved With the Justice System
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How Health Center Care Teams Can Address Health and Housing for Patients Involved With the Justice System

The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council & the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
05.11.2021
This report provides an overview of both the civil and criminal justice systems in the United States and describes the cyclical relationship between those systems and housing insecurity, including homelessness.
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Health Care
Social Needs
Safety-Net Accountable Health Model Partnership Drives Inpatient Connection to Outpatient Social Services, Reducing Readmissions in a Population Experiencing Homelessness
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Safety-Net Accountable Health Model Partnership Drives Inpatient Connection to Outpatient Social Services, Reducing Readmissions in a Population Experiencing Homelessness

Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network
05.2021
This study evaluates whether screening for homelessness during hospitalization and deploying outpatient care managers to the inpatient setting to rapidly connect patients to community social services reduce hospital readmissions.
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Health Care
Social Needs
Social Services
Building Effective, Sustainable Partnerships Between State Associations to Strengthen the Safety Net
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Building Effective, Sustainable Partnerships Between State Associations to Strengthen the Safety Net

Delta Center for a Thriving Safety Net
05.10.2021
This report analyzes the process by which primary care associations and behavioral health state associations built and strengthened their partnerships, starting from collaboration on Delta Center project proposals and ultimately to joint policy and practice accomplishments.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Aligning Systems for Health: Rapid-Cycle Research Findings from Care Share Health Alliance and Healthier Highland
Brief

Aligning Systems for Health: Rapid-Cycle Research Findings from Care Share Health Alliance and Healthier Highland

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
05.06.2021
This brief summarizes the process and outcomes of Healthier Highland’s community engagement and its impact on cross-sector collaboration for improving community health.
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Health Care
Social Needs