Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
Publication
Distributing Leadership to Transform Health Ecosystems
This blog post examines distributed leadership–the practice of sharing leadership among many players–and how it plays out in the context of transforming regional health ecosystems.
Governance
Alignment 101
Publication
Primary Care Where Everybody Knows Your Name
This article details how Maryland has been a leader in supporting integrated models of care delivery to address the social, environmental, and behavioral factors that have an outsize impact on health.
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Complex Care
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Case Study
Empowering Residents to Lead Their Peers in Improving Upward Mobility for Better Financial and Health Outcomes: Building Uplifted Families
This story highlights how Charlotte, North Carolina, formed a cross-sector and community-driven collaborative that aimed to drive sustainable improvements in health, with a focus on empowering residents to lead their peers in improving upward mobility for better financial and health outcomes, by applying bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven approaches.
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Case Study
Helping the Community Navigate Mental and Physical Wellness for Children and Families: BUILD Health Aurora
This story highlights how Aurora, Colo., formed a cross-sector and community-driven collaborative that aimed to drive sustainable improvements in health, with a focus on helping the community navigate mental and physical wellness for children and families, by applying bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven approaches.
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Community Approaches to System Change: A Compendium of Practices, Reflections, and Findings
This report captures and assesses results from 19 communities across the country working over the last two years with the goal of fostering sustainable improvements in health.
Data
Governance
Shared Purpose
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Addressing Healthcare’s Blindside in Albuquerque’s South Side
This report illustrates how the Addressing Healthcare’s Blindside in Albuquerque’s South Side collaborative addresses chronic disease and self-management via a multi-sector collaboration and an integrated chronic disease management referral system that links clinics to community resources.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Chronic Disease
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Publication
Charting A Pathway To Better Health
This article details how Toledo and other communities nationwide are implementing a new approach to care coordination, called Pathways Community HUB, to reach patients where they live.
Financing
Shared Purpose
Complex Care
Social Needs
Report
Blueprint for Complex Care
This report provides a strategic plan to support multi-disciplinary innovations and accelerate opportunities to improve care for individuals with complex health and social needs.
Data
Financing
Governance
Shared Purpose
Complex Care
Webinar
Connecting the Systems that Drive Health in Your Community: Medical, Social, and Public Health
This presentation highlights what we know and still need to learn about building strong building strong multi-sector community networks, based on research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Systems for Action program.
Data
Financing
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Report
Negotiating a Well-Being Portfolio
This resource is designed to help regional leaders explore how to create a balanced and impactful set of policies, programs, and practices that will transform the system that produces health and well-being.
Shared Purpose
Alignment 101