Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Brief
Multi-Sector Community Networks Are Losing Strength in Many Rural Areas, Reducing Capacity to Improve Population Health Evidence
This brief highlights a growing body of research that demonstrates networks of community organizations, working together, can have profound effects on the health trajectories and social determinants of health.
Data
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
Using Measurement to Inform an Equitable, Aligned COVID-19 Recovery
This article discusses how policymakers and leaders can use measurement to help systems work towards more equitable health outcomes by disaggregating data to identify inequities; partnering with communities to identify actionable metrics; and balancing decision-making among stakeholders.
Data
COVID-19
Case Study
Aligning in Action: Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation
This case study examines how the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation's history of building one of the first Connected Communities of Care in the nation, rooted in its proprietary information exchange platform, gave it — as an intermediary or backbone organization — the necessary experience of aligning diverse stakeholders to then serve as a bridge organization for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Accountable Health Communities Model in Dallas.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
Finding Innovation and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sector Alignment and the Response to COVID-19
This brief highlights how successfully addressing the complex challenges that affect community health — such as COVID-19 and its economic impacts — requires health care, public health, and social services to work together in new ways.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
COVID-19
Webinar
Investigating Systems Alignment of Multi-Sector Agencies to Address Child Maltreatment in St. Louis
This webinar explores the Parents and Children Together - St. Louis initiative which braids together services and funding streams from multiple sectors to assist families with children who are referred to child protective services for first-time and low-severity problems.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Social Needs
Case Study
Aligning in Action: Rocky Mountain Health Plans
This case study highlights Rocky Mountain Health Plans (RMHP), a unique example where a payer is facilitating regional efforts to address social determinants of health. RMHP serves as a bridge organization within the Accountable Health Communities Model, coordinating efforts in a largely rural area.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs
Brief
Responding to COVID-19: An Activated Network with Health Collaboratives in Action
This brief outlines how regional health improvement collaboratives have the capabilities to build key partnerships and create answers quickly during a crisis, including taking swift action to support key stakeholders responding to the emergent community needs resulting from COVID-19.
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Publication
Linking Health and Housing Data to Create a Sustainable Cross-Sector Partnership
This article outlines Washington State’s King County Housing Authority and Seattle Housing Authority collaboration with Public Health–Seattle & King County to form the Housing and Health partnership, which aims to build system alignment between public health and housing.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
Aligning U.S. Spending Priorities Using the Health Impact Pyramid Lens
This article examines the need to integrate and align public health, social services, and medical care in the United States through the lens of Thomas Frieden’s “health impact pyramid."
Financing
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
New Research Shows How Enhanced Connectivity Between Health and Social Service Systems Can Reduce Inequality, Inefficiency
This article explores research showing that cross-sector connections have been slower to develop in rural than urban communities, giving rise to a new and growing form of inequality across the United States.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs