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

Publication
Development and Validation of a Measure to Assess Readiness to Advance Health and Equity: The Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation
This publication reports on the development and validation of the Assessment for Advancing Community Transformation - a tool that allows groups to directly collect and use data about their multi-sector collaborative by creating a shared point of reference for where partners are at in their stage of development across multiple factors.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
Welcome to the TEAM: A Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring
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.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

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

Publication
Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees Through Managed Care: Lessons and Promising Practices from the Field
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.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
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 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

Report
Conceptualizing Performance Measurement for Social Care Interventions: An Issue Brief for State Medicaid Agencies
This issue brief explores opportunities for state Medicaid agencies to implement performance measures with contracted entities that could strengthen their growing interest in social care and highlights several barriers to those applications.
Alignment 101
Complex Care
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Services

Brief
Four Principles for a Resilient, Equitable Recovery with City, County, and State Examples
"This brief highlights four principles and includes accompanying city, county, and state examples to help leaders maximize the benefits of federal relief and recovery investments and lay the foundation for an equitable response to future crises.
Alignment 101
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

Webinar
Aligning Systems for Health Research and Practice Convening 2021
This two-day webinar series reviews Aligning Systems for Health's learnings on cross-sector alignment over the past three years and what their findings mean for the future of the field.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs