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

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

Publication
Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022
This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
The State of the Field of Complex Care 2022
This publication outlines trends that impacted the field of complex care on the national level in 2021.
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

Webinar
Can Subsidized Transportation Options Slow Diabetes Progression?
This webinar examines low-cost ways of improving transportation opportunities for low-income urban diabetic patients, including providing public transit vouchers, a cash benefit, or mobility counseling compared with usual medical care alone.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Ensuring That Money Intended for Health Equity is Well Spent
publication highlights how a national framework to measure equity can help state and local jurisdictions employ American Rescue Plan Act funds as intended — and hold city, county and state leaders accountable for focusing on equity in their decision-making and programmatic choices.
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

Publication
Integrating Healthcare Strategies to Prevent Poverty-Related Disparities in Development and Growth: Addressing Core Outcomes of Early Childhood
This publication proposes a strength-based, whole child approach to target common antecedents (such as poverty) through positive parenting and prevent disparities in both development and growth.
Health Care
Social Needs

Webinar
Closing the Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Women
This webinar examines the Los Angeles Maternity Assessment Management Access and Service program, an innovative multi-sector initiative seeking to address social factors that contribute to adverse maternal and infant outcomes, including housing instability, food insecurity, untreated mental health conditions, domestic violence, and substance abuse.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Applying the Aligning in Crisis Principles
These briefs present principles and practical questions that government agencies and local fiscal intermediaries, like local wellness funds and health-oriented community collaboratives, can use to guide planning for use of COVID-19 recovery funds.
Complex Care
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

Webinar
Taking Action on Housing as a Political Determinant of Health
This podcast explores why and how healthcare organizations should engage in federal advocacy on issues like housing affordability.
Health Care
Social Needs