Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Brief
Aligning in Crisis: Practical Insights to Seize Opportunity
This brief discusses key learnings from the Aligning in Crisis' first convening of surveillance partners.
Financing
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services
Webinar
Collaboratively Addressing Food Insecurity During COVID-19 in Urban Environments
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.
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
Aligning Healthcare, Public Health and Social Services: A Scoping Review of the Role of Purpose, Governance, Finance and Data
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.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Addressing Systems for Health: Health Care, Public Health and Social Services
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.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Case Study
Aligning in Action: Denver Area Agency on Aging
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.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Aligning in Crisis: Innovations to Meet Opportunity
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.
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services
Report
How Health Center Care Teams Can Address Health and Housing for Patients Involved With the Justice System
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.
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs
Publication
Safety-Net Accountable Health Model Partnership Drives Inpatient Connection to Outpatient Social Services, Reducing Readmissions in a Population Experiencing Homelessness
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.
Data
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs
Social Services
Report
Building Effective, Sustainable Partnerships Between State Associations to Strengthen the Safety Net
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.
Governance
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Brief
Aligning Systems for Health: Rapid-Cycle Research Findings from Care Share Health Alliance and Healthier Highland
This brief summarizes the process and outcomes of Healthier Highland’s community engagement and its impact on cross-sector collaboration for improving community health.
Governance
Health Care
Social Needs