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The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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PACT-STL Evaluation: Culture, Context, and Community Participation
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PACT-STL Evaluation: Culture, Context, and Community Participation

Systems for Action
06.22.2022
This webinar presents an innovative model for preventing child maltreatment and adverse child experiences by aligning health and social services for vulnerable families in St. Louis.
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Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Welcome to the TEAM: A Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring
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Welcome to the TEAM: A Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring

Systems for Action, Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
06.08.2022
This webinar presents the Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring (TEAM), a tool designed to help people think about measurement and strategy in their cross-sector health collaboratives.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services
Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan
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Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan

ReThink Health
06.06.2022
This brief explores how stewards in Palm Beach County, Florida and a five-town region in southeast Michigan determined how to reallocate resources to create more equitable regional systems for health and well-being.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Best of ARM: Evaluating Engagement in Multi-Sector Community Health Networks: The Case of Tribal Organizations
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Best of ARM: Evaluating Engagement in Multi-Sector Community Health Networks: The Case of Tribal Organizations

Systems for Action
06.04.2022
This publication evaluates variation in public health system engagement with tribal organizations across a national sample of communities and identifies predictors of engagement.
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Health Care
Public Health
Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States
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Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

Aligning in Crisis, Georgia Health Policy Center, George Washington University
05.2022
This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations
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“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations

SIREN (Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network)
04.14.2022
This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.
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Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs
Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022
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Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

Public Health National Center for Innovations
02.2022
This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs
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Public Health
Social Needs
Rethinking Value: Perspectives on the Benefits of Cross-Sector Collaboratives Serving Populations with Complex Health and Social Needs
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Rethinking Value: Perspectives on the Benefits of Cross-Sector Collaboratives Serving Populations with Complex Health and Social Needs

National Center for Complex Health & Social Needs
02.14.2022
This brief explores how different organizations and community members define and measure the value of cross-sector collaboration by convening key informant focus groups with organizations and also with affiliated community members involved in cross-sector efforts.
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Alignment 101
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs
Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees Through Managed Care: Lessons and Promising Practices from the Field
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Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees Through Managed Care: Lessons and Promising Practices from the Field

Georgia Southern University
02.02.2022
This publication describes the perspectives of Medicaid managed care organizations representatives on the lessons learned and emerging promising practices from addressing social determinants of health among their Medicaid enrollees.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs
Study Finds Room to Boost Maternal and Child Health Participation in Health Impact Assessments
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Study Finds Room to Boost Maternal and Child Health Participation in Health Impact Assessments

Aligning Systems for Health (Georgia Health Policy Center)
01.24.2022
This publication exmaines a study showing how health impact assessments provide an action-oriented framework for maternal and child healthcare professionals to become involved in cross-sector collaboration to improve health equity.
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Complex Care
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services