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The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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Bridging Trust and Community
Webinar

Bridging Trust and Community in Cross-Sector Alignment

Aligning Systems for Health
12.17.2020
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.
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Alignment 101
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Trust Measurement Questions
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Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Trust Measurement Questions

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
08.02.2021
The brief examines the conceptualization and measurement of trust in the context of aligning efforts and provides questions that are superlatively important for understanding and advancing aligning efforts.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Key Lessons: Collaborating for Data Sharing
Webinar

Building Trust for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration

National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
06.01.2017
This webinar features perspectives on the importance of building trust when embarking on data-sharing partnerships to help communities address the social determinants that negatively impact the health of people with complex health and social needs.
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Alignment 101
Complex Care
Social Needs
Building Trust for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration
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Building Trust for Cross-Sector Data Collaboration

National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
05.2018
This report explores ways to create and strengthen data partnerships, including identifying shared needs, finding internal champions, building on existing partnerships, understanding that building collaborative relationships takes time, tailoring communication for the appropriate audience, and adapting and implementing existing technology to meet organizations’ needs.
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Alignment 101
Complex Care
Social Needs
Good Governance Across Sectors
Webinar

Good Governance Across Sectors

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
10.14.2021
On October 14, a panel of experts explained how they’ve found success in governing cross-sector relationships with power dynamics, community voice, trust, and other factors at play.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Measurement Questions for Equity as an Adaptive Factor
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Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Measurement Questions for Equity as an Adaptive Factor

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
08.02.2021
This brief focuses on equity as it relates to the individual inner elements of the alignment framework: shared purpose, governance, data, finance, trust, power, and community voice.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Making Aligning Work: Adaptive Factors
Brief

Making Aligning Work: Adaptive Factors

Aligning Systems for Health
01.25.2021
This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures themes, lessons, and trends around the adaptive factors of aligning systems including trust, equity, power dynamics, and community voice.
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Alignment 101
Health System Transformation
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Health System Transformation

Georgia Health Policy Center
01.21.2023
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan
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Putting Shared Stewardship into Practice: Palm Beach County and 5 Healthy Towns, Michigan

ReThink Health
06.06.2022
This brief explores how stewards in Palm Beach County, Florida and a five-town region in southeast Michigan determined how to reallocate resources to create more equitable regional systems for health and well-being.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States
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Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

Aligning in Crisis, Georgia Health Policy Center, George Washington University
05.2022
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.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs