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Aligning and Streamlining Systems to Secure Better Outcomes for Families
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Aspen Early Childhood and Health Forum: Aligning and Streamlining Systems to Secure Better Outcomes for Families

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In the summer of 2018, Ascend gathered more than two dozen state and national policy experts and other leaders in the fields of health and early learning at its Aspen Meadows Campus in Aspen, Colorado, to discuss the growing opportunity to leverage the 2Gen approach at the state level and determine how best to take promising new innovations to scale.

This report discusses specific actions leaders at the local, state, and federal level can keep doing, start doing, or stop doing to get systems alignment and services right for children and families. The report summarizes these recommendations and shares examples from four states that are leading the way.

Webinar

Aligning in Crisis: Strategies and Tools to Leverage Federal Funding

On 9/14, experts from Aligning in Crisis, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will discussed how, if deployed strategically and effectively, federal funds can advance equity, shift power to the community, and set the stage for positive, long-term change.

Webinar

Welcome to the TEAM: A Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring

This webinar presents the Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring (TEAM), a tool designed to help people think about measurement and strategy in their cross-sector health collaboratives.

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.