Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results

Brief
Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: State Lessons
Health Care

Brief
Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan
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.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States
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.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Rethinking Value: Perspectives on the Benefits of Cross-Sector Collaboratives Serving Populations with Complex Health and Social Needs
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.
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs

Brief
The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings
This brief presents lessons learned about the community partnership process from a series of interviews and a focus group with community members engaging in cross-sector collaboratives.
Alignment 101

Brief
Community Member Experiences with Collaboratives: Preliminary Findings
This brief presents findings from interviews and a focus group with 15 community members who have participated in, and in some cases been affected by, cross-sector collaboratives in their communities.
Alignment 101

Brief
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the University of California, Berkeley
This brief assesses how pre-existing work to align health care, public health, and social services within Contra Costa County, Calif., was used and adapted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Population Health Innovation Lab
This brief highlights measures for aligning that health-oriented multisector collaboratives can use to assess their
progress across the elements of the Framework for Aligning Sectors.
Alignment 101

Brief
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Center for Health Progress
This brief examines the pandemic’s impact on how organizations engage marginalized community members in cross-sector collaboratives.
COVID-19
Health Care
Social Needs

Brief
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Camden Coalition
This brief examines perceptions of value of cross-sector collaboration toward serving populations with complex health and social needs.
Health Care
Social Needs