Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Brief
Making Aligning Work: Reflections on 18 Months of Aligning Across Sectors
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures reflections on the progress made in the field around aligning sectors, the implications of the triple crisis for aligning efforts, and considerations for the future of aligning across sectors.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Community Voices Panel: Shifting Power
This webinar on April 1 explores ways to empower and elevate the voice of community members in cross-sector aligning efforts.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Exploring Consumer Engagement Experiences
This report provides insight and guidance for how complex care organizations—and others—can and should build authentic and mutually beneficial partnerships with their consumer stakeholders.
Shared Purpose
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs
Brief
Community-Based Organizations Survey Summary
This survey provides insights into how community-based organizations serve their communities, what data or information they use as part of that work, and how they work with partners.
Data
Financing
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Conducting Equity Assessments
This brief examines four Cross-Sector Innovation Initiative grantees that conducted equity assessments and/or used tools to assess how their collaborative is functioning.
Data
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Social Risks vs. Social Needs: Assessing Patients’ Interest in Assistance
This podcast episode explores a wide range of reasons why patients who screen positive for a social risk may not desire related assistance from the health care team.
Data
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs
Social Services
Brief
Aligning in Action: The Health Project
The brief examines how Mercy Health uses community benefit dollars to fund community-facing initiatives through the Health Project.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs
Webinar
Financing and Service Delivery Integration for Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
This webinar explores a study investigating system-level strategies that achieve alignment, partnership, and synergy across the delivery and financing systems for medical care, public health, and social and community services.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Social Services
Brief
Aligning in Crisis: A Framework for Opportunity
This brief presents a framework to strengthen the immediate response to the COVID-19 pandemic and address the long-term health and social needs the pandemic has exacerbated.
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Webinar
Building Accountability for Social Risk Screening into State Medicaid Programs
This podcast episode explores design considerations from state Medicaid agencies weighing the use of quality measures for social risk screening.
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Medicaid
Social Services