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Making Aligning Work: Adaptive Factors
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Making Aligning Work: Adaptive Factors

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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, community voices, power dynamics, and equity.

This brief concludes that mapping the states of aligning may overly simplify the interconnection among the core components and adaptive factors by assuming that these elements are either fully in place or not.

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This series mines the experience of catalysts, researchers, and funders who have been involved with efforts to align the three sectors through quarterly interviews (fall 2019 through spring 2021). These interviews with 10 selected experts are anchored around the cross-sector alignment theory of change. Following the structured interviews, participants are invited to a virtual, sense-making teleconference with GHPC researchers to assess the emerging themes across the 10 conversations.

Aligning Systems for Health: Health Care + Public Health + Social Services, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and managed by the Georgia Health Policy Center, is focused on learning from stakeholders across the nation about effective ways to align these three sectors to better meet people’s goals and needs.

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Community Voice In Cross-Sector Alignment: Concepts and Strategies from a Scoping Review of the Health Collaboration Literature

This article addresses a gap in the literature with a systematic scoping review of research on health-oriented cross-sector collaboration and community voice.

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COVID Relief Money: States Need Public-Private Partnerships

This op-ed authored by Jeffrey Levi and published in The Hill highlights the need for states and localities to align varied federal funding streams to maximize effectiveness and sustainability.

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Making Aligning Work: Reflections on 18 Months of Aligning Across Sectors

This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health’s Making Aligning Work series–captures reflections on the progress made in the field around aligning sectors, the implications of the triple crisis for aligning efforts, and considerations for the future of aligning across sectors.