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

Case Study
Aligning in Action: Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement
This case study examines how the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement uses a collective impact approach to implement its 28-year strategy to reduce health disparities and create place-based systems change.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
Bridging Trust and Community in Cross-Sector Alignment
What can individuals and institutions do to build trust as a foundation for creating community connections and engaging citizens? This webinar on December 17 examines why intentionally focusing on trust is critical to maintaining connections, building community, and leveraging success.
Alignment 101
Brief
Making Aligning Work Series
This series mines the experience of catalysts, researchers, and funders who have been involved with efforts to align the three sectors—health care, public health, and social services—through quarterly interviews (fall 2019 through spring 2021).
Alignment 101

Webinar
Power and Privilege in Cross-Sector Alignment
What role does power and privilege play when designing for the social sector? How does that impact what good design looks like? This webinar and workshop on November 13 served as a wake-up call for designers working to make social change where the risk of doing harm is as likely as the promise of doing good.
Alignment 101

Webinar
Aligning Systems for Health: Results from Rapid Cycle Research Grants
This webinar highlights learnings from the first three rapid-cycle research grants awarded by the Georgia Health Policy Center, which leads Aligning Systems for Health. Presenting researchers from Public Health Solutions, Pathways Community HUB Institute, and JSI discuss specific aspects of the Cross-Sector Alignment Framework.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Making Aligning Work: National Experts Reflect on Systemic Racism and Cross-Sector Alignment
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–focuses on themes emerging from initial conversations around how cross-sector alignment might address systemic racism.
Alignment 101

Case Study
Aligning in Action: Live Well San Diego
This case study examines how Live Well San Diego uses a collective impact model to achieve the countywide vision of building better health, living safely, and thriving.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Responding to COVID-19: Finding and Leveraging Partnerships
This blog post highlights how providers are using new and existing connections to better respond to the needs of vulnerable community members during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19

Publication
A Framework for Thriving: A Comprehensive Approach to Child Health
This blog explores a four-part framework that child-serving sectors could use to focus their efforts to improve child health and well-being. This framework is designed to enable adopters to identify cross-sector partners with whom child-health interventions should be developed.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
Community Resource Referral Platforms: Going From 1.0 to 2.0
This webinar shares experiences and strategies for effective community resource referral platforms and discusses what it looks like to activate these recommendations.
Health Care
Social Needs