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

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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

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Aligning in Action: Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation
This case study examines how the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation's history of building one of the first Connected Communities of Care in the nation, rooted in its proprietary information exchange platform, gave it — as an intermediary or backbone organization — the necessary experience of aligning diverse stakeholders to then serve as a bridge organization for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Accountable Health Communities Model in Dallas.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

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Aligning in Action: Rocky Mountain Health Plans
This case study highlights Rocky Mountain Health Plans (RMHP), a unique example where a payer is facilitating regional efforts to address social determinants of health. RMHP serves as a bridge organization within the Accountable Health Communities Model, coordinating efforts in a largely rural area.
Health Care
Social Needs

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The Power Of Effective Community Partnerships: Spotlight on Cincinnati’s All Children Thrive Learning Network
This case study features the All Children Thrive (ACT) Learning Network at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, including the intricacies of the ACT model, how it’s adapted in light of COVID-19, and the path forward.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

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Innovating Through Cross-Sector Alignment: Crowdsourcing Ideas to Improve Mental Well-Being and Housing Stability
This case study — in an effort to highlight innovative multi-sector partnerships between governmental public health, healthcare, and social service organizations, along with the engagement of their communities — examines how the Hennepin (Minn.) Public Health Department offered mini-grants directly to community members with local ideas and solutions to improve mental well-being and housing stability in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19
Public Health
Social Needs

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Innovating Through Cross-Sector Alignment: Addressing Food Insecurity Through Economic Partnerships
This case study — in an effort to highlight innovative multi-sector partnerships between governmental public health, healthcare, and social service organizations, along with the engagement of their communities — highlights the Family Meal Roseville program to help to address food needs with restaurants’ expertise and capacity to feed to families in need in response to unprecedented food insecurity needs as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19
Public Health
Social Needs

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Aligning in Action: Western Idaho Community Health Collaborative
This case study examines how payers, foundations, health systems, and public health came together in early 2019 to form Western Idaho
Community Health Collaborative, a 10-county collaborative, and align each other’s strategies and investments in a coordinated effort.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

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Aligning in Action: Healthy Homes Des Moines
This case study examines Healthy Homes Des Moines, a pilot program to provide home remediation and health education to reduce the burden of childhood asthma. The goal of the pilot was to demonstrate the value of an upstream intervention to the community and to health care providers.
Chronic Disease
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs

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Home Together: Ensuring Babies Have a Place to Call Home
This case study highlights how the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Little Rock, Ark. nonprofit Our House have aligned to support mothers of young children facing homelessness and housing insecurity.
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs