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

Publication
Interrupting Violence From Within the Trauma Unit and Well Beyond
This article highlights how MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Community Violence Intervention Program is providing short- and long-term support to victims of violence, hoping to reduce the number of repeat visitors.
Health Care
Mental Health
Social Needs

Brief
Equity from a Cross-Sector Alignment Perspective: Findings from a Literature Review
This brief highlights findings from a literature review which identifies common barriers to equity and solutions for overcoming those barriers at the individual, organization, and systems level.
Alignment 101

Case Study
Trenton Health Team: A Holistic Approach to Social Services
This case study highlights the Trenton Health Team, an innovative, multi-sector partnership dedicated to the health and well-being of the greater New Jersey Trenton community.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Health And Human Services Integration: Generating Sustained Health And Equity Improvements
This publication summarizes the characteristics of current health and human services integration efforts, synthesizes key evidence on the effectiveness of different integration activities, and highlights associated gaps in the evidence and critical implementation challenges.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Report
Fostering Healthy Neighborhoods: Alignment Across the Community Development, Financial Well-Being, and Health Sectors
This report presents examples of existing alignment across sectors, opportunities and challenges for increased collaboration, and recommendations to foster cross-sector alignment across the community development, public health, health care, and financial well-being sectors.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Case Study
Aligning in Action: The Community Caring Collaborative
This case study examines the Community Caring Collaborative in Maine and how it has become a backbone organization for regional efforts that holistically improve the health and lives of community members.
Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Beyond the Camden Coalition’s Randomized Controlled Trial: Lessons for the Complex Care Field on Addressing Patient Needs
This interview highlights critical opportunities for improving care management interventions that target highly medically and socially complex populations, including community-based and cross-sector partnerships and investments.
Complex Care
Health Care
Mental Health
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Making Aligning Work: National Experts Reflect on Context and Outcomes for Aligning
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures themes, lessons, and trends around the context and outcomes of aligning efforts from interviews and sense-making sessions with catalysts, researchers, and funders who have been involved with efforts to align the three sectors.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Case Study
Aligning in Action: HealthierHere, the King County Accountable Community of Health
This case study explores HealthierHere’s best practices for effectively aligning systems to meaningfully impact health inequities in King County, Washington.
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs

Case Study
Aligning in Action: Gen-H, An Accountable Health Community
This case study examines Gen-H at the Health Collaborative, a long-term, systems-change initiative that strives to make Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky a healthier, more vibrant community by addressing unmet health-related social needs.
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs