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Webinar

Using Global Budgets and Multi-Sector Teams to Align Systems in Vermont: Strategies to Achieve Alignment, Collaboration, and Synergy Across Delivery and Financing Systems

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This webinar introduces a study testing the effectiveness of a global all-payer payment model combined with multi-sector community health teams in improving health and social outcomes for Vermont residents.

Results will provide state and federal decision-makers with strategies for using global budgeting and multi-sector teams to achieve systems alignment.

The Vermont Blueprint for Health initiative is among the most ambitious statewide health financing reforms now underway in the U.S. The study uses quasi-experimental methods to estimate the reform’s effects on relationships among health and social service organizations, access to needed health and social services, healthcare utilization and costs, and equity in health outcomes. Researchers at the University of Vermont are collaborating with the Department of Vermont Health Access, OneCare Vermont, and the Green Mountain Care Board to conduct the study.

Publication

A Theory of Change for Aligning Health Care, Public Health, and Social Services in the Time of COVID-19

This article, published by Georgia Health Policy Center researchers in the American Journal of Public Health, highlights how the core components of cross-sector alignment along with the principles of community voice and health equity can be used to design interactions among health care, public health, and social services that better meet the goals and needs of the people and communities they serve in a way that is built to last.

Webinar

Theory of Change Charette

This webinar features an overview of RWJF's Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change and recaps stakeholder input into how the Theory of Change can better support the work of those implementing cross-sector alignment.

Brief

Making Aligning Work: An Early Look at COVID-19’s Impact on Cross-Sector Alignment

This brief–part of the Aligning Systems for Health's Making Aligning Work series–focuses on very early observations about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts communities aligning health care, public health, and social services, with a focus on the components of the Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change — internal capacity; urgency; shared purpose, data, financing, and governance; community engagement; and a focus on equity.