Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Webinar
Pixels: Learning from Each Other
This virtual event features Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grantees sharing the work they are engaged in around cross-sector alignment: What is it? What does it mean? Why does it matter? How can we use these lessons in light of the current fight against COVID-19?
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Complex Care
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Brief
All In COVID Listening Sessions Connect Communities Struggling with COVID-19
This brief outlines learnings from All In's inaugural Listening Session to pave the way for knowledge sharing and policy development in the post-COVID future. Topics ranged from apps involved in contact tracing to the social determinants of health exposed by the outbreak.
Data
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Case Study
Home Together: Ensuring Babies Have a Place to Call Home
This case study highlights how the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Little Rock, Ark. nonprofit Our House have aligned to support mothers of young children facing homelessness and housing insecurity.
Data
Shared Purpose
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs
Publication
ARCH: Setting Strategic Priorities with EngageWell IPA
This series of blog posts shares reflections from staff involved with Advancing Resilience and Community Health–a project to help the burgeoning relationships between healthcare institutions and community-based organizations–about learnings from defining scopes of work and delving into strategic priorities for each network.
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Social Needs
Case Study
Aligning in Action: Vita Health & Wellness District
This case study examines how Stamford, Connecticut's public housing authority, Charter Oak Communities, and the local health system, Stamford Health, enabled a land swap that ultimately led to the revitalization of that city’s West Side neighborhood through a collective-impact approach.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar
Why Cross-Sector Alignment Matters: Real Life Stories
This webinar features the people working in communities to better meet the needs of the people and places they serve. The panel shares their own personal challenges navigating complex systems and how they are now helping others.
Data
Financing
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Social Needs
Webinar
Immediate Approaches for Collaboration During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This virtual community forum explores the ways in which a fragmented system is impeding care delivery for complex patients and identifies near-term opportunities to address them including solutions that forum participants are finding on the ground to overcome them.
Shared Purpose
COVID-19
Health Care
Brief
Cross-Sector Alignment Glossary
This cross-sector alignment glossary, developed by Aligning Systems for Health, offers a starting point for understanding alignment terminology.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Publication
Health And Human Services Integration: Generating Sustained Health And Equity Improvements
This article addresses the knowledge gaps that must be filled to realize the potential of health care and human services integration.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Social Services
Brief
Making Aligning Work: National Experts Reflect on Purpose, Data, Financing, and Governance
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures themes, lessons, and trends around the core components of aligned systems identified in the Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change: purpose, data, financing, and governance.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs