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This case study features the All Children Thrive (ACT) Learning Network at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, including the intricacies of the ACT model, how it’s adapted in light of COVID-19, and the path forward.

This case study — in an effort to highlight innovative multi-sector partnerships between governmental public health, healthcare, and social service organizations, along with the engagement of their communities — examines how the Hennepin (Minn.) Public Health Department offered mini-grants directly to community members with local ideas and solutions to improve mental well-being and housing stability in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

This article, published by Georgia Health Policy Center researchers in the American Journal of Public Health, highlights how the core components of cross-sector alignment along with the principles of community voice and health equity can be used to design interactions among health care, public health, and social services that better meet the goals and needs of the people and communities they serve in a way that is built to last.

This webinar introduces a new study testing the effectiveness of multi-sector financing and delivery strategies in expanding the reach and impact of the Nurse-Family Partnership program across the United States.

This article highlights how systems are investing in workers who come from the communities they serve to meet patient needs that extend well beyond clinic walls.

This brief examines emerging anecdotal evidence that shows communities with the core components of cross-sector alignment (shared purpose, data, financing, and governance) already in place may be able to quickly apply this way of thinking and working to rapidly arising threats, like COVID-19.

This blog highlights how for the Bay Area Health Justice Collective’s Housing is Health project, a Data Across Sectors for Health CIC-START grantee, prioritizing community voice was critical even during COVID.

This case study — in an effort to highlight innovative multi-sector partnerships between governmental public health, healthcare, and social service organizations, along with the engagement of their communities — highlights the Family Meal Roseville program to help to address food needs with restaurants’ expertise and capacity to feed to families in need in response to unprecedented food insecurity needs as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.

This webinar features an overview of RWJF's Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change and recaps stakeholder input into how the Theory of Change can better support the work of those implementing cross-sector alignment.

This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health's Making Aligning Work series–focuses on very early observations about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts communities aligning health care, public health, and social services, with a focus on the components of the Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change — internal capacity; urgency; shared purpose, data, financing, and governance; community engagement; and a focus on equity.