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Aligning in Crisis: Practical Insights to Seize Opportunity
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Aligning in Crisis: Practical Insights to Seize Opportunity

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This brief discusses key learnings from the Aligning in Crisis’ first convening of surveillance partners. The national panel of surveillance partners includes population health and health equity experts from key trade associations and non-profit social service organizations to draw out meaning from collected innovations born in the response to the triple crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The surveillance partners meet quarterly to evaluate, among many things, how the innovations address equity; which (if any) could be scaled and under what conditions; and what policies at the local, state, and federal levels would sustain transformative innovations and promote alignment between public health, social services, and health care sectors to better meet community goals and needs.

The Georgia Health Policy Center, in partnership with the School of Public Health at George Washington University and with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is identifying, synthesizing, and disseminating cross-sector policy and implementation opportunities that facilitate recovery from the triple crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacts of the 2020 economic downturn, and the ongoing impact of structural racism. The work – Aligning in Crisis — builds on Aligning Systems for Health: Health Care + Public Health + Social Services.

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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.

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The Process of Partnering with Community Members: Preliminary Findings

This brief presents lessons learned about the community partnership process from a series of interviews and a focus group with community members engaging in cross-sector collaboratives.

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Community Member Experiences with Collaboratives: Preliminary Findings

This brief presents findings from interviews and a focus group with 15 community members who have participated in, and in some cases been affected by, cross-sector collaboratives in their communities.