Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results
![Developing Financially Sustainable Child Health Transformation: Lessons from Primary Care Innovators](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-05-at-9.59.56-AM.png)
Brief
Developing Financially Sustainable Child Health Transformation: Lessons from Primary Care Innovators
Health Care
Social Needs
![Expanding the Menu: Opportunities for Medicaid to Better Address Food Insecurity](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-02-153842.png)
Brief
Expanding the Menu: Opportunities for Medicaid to Better Address Food Insecurity
This brief outlines strategies for state Medicaid agencies to help people experiencing food insecurity obtain continuous access to nourishing food, which is critical to improve health outcomes and advance health equity.
Health Care
Public Health
![Engaging Community Members: A Guide to Equitable Compensation](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-02-121040-502x660.png)
![Water Insecurity and Population Health: Implications for Health Policy and Equity](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/health-affairs-brief-water-insecurity-cushing-1696275970603.webp)
Brief
Water Insecurity and Population Health: Implications for Health Policy and Equity
![Community Voice: Guiding Principles Across the Spectrum of Engagement](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-10-02-213239-510x660.png)
Brief
Community Voice: Guiding Principles Across the Spectrum of Engagement
![Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: State Lessons](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/DASH-510x660.png)
Brief
Bringing Community Voice into Cross-Sector Data Sharing: State Lessons
Health Care
![Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-10-at-2.57.43-PM-510x204.png)
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
![Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/intermediaries-510x253.png)
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
![Rethinking Value: Perspectives on the Benefits of Cross-Sector Collaboratives Serving Populations with Complex Health and Social Needs](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-9.14.40-AM-510x660.png)
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
![The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings](http://www.alignforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-21-at-1.35.13-PM-506x660.png)
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