Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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Aligning in Action: Mississippi Delta Promise Communities through the Delta Health Alliance
This case study explores how two Mississippi Delta Promise Communities developed a “cradle-to-career” national model that builds a pipeline of programs, services, and supports so that children and youth in distressed communities can succeed in school and beyond.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

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Aligning Up Close: A Community’s Response to a Pandemic
This case study highlights how Elevate Health, an Accountable Communities of Health organization in Pierce County, Washington, partnered with clinical services, social services, and public health to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Complex Care
Public Health
Social Needs

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Aligning in Action: Healthier Together
This case study explores a resident-led funding approach designed to solve local communities’ most complex health issues, neighborhood by neighborhood in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

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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: NCCARE360
This case study examines how NCCARE360 leverages the first statewide coordinated care network to electronically connect those with identified needs to
community resources, with a feedback loop reporting on the outcome of that connection.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

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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