The Georgia Health Policy Center is pleased to announce the public release of The TEAM — A Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring.
Are you looking for a way to measure if your collaborative is on the right track? Are you trying to pinpoint some areas that will strengthen your collaborative’s ability to work across sectors?
The TEAM is designed to help people and collaboratives think about and measure their complex, cross-sector work.
The site contains three assessments and a searchable database of measures that users can pull from for specific areas of focus.
- The Base Set contains 20 baseline questions to assess whether a collaborative is, in fact, aligning across sectors.
- The Featured Set is a collection of measures to help think about if the collaborative is aligning well.
- GrAASP (Group Assessment for Aligning Systems for People) is a tool intended to guide partners to a consensus on the status (or rating) of their aligning effort.
- The Compendium of Measures is a curated, searchable library of tools and measures.
It is widely understood that no one organization or even sector can singlehandedly address complex and deeply entrenched community problems like homelessness, food deserts, and health disparities. Innovating solutions to these problems will require health care, public health, and social services organizations to work together with an unprecedented level of sustainable coordination.
The Framework for Aligning Sectors, developed by the Aligning Systems for Health Team at the Georgia Health Policy Center, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, provides cross-sector collaboratives with an evidence-informed approach to design this work together. The TEAM builds on the framework by providing a quantifiable and objective way to measure aligning.
“From the beginning, collaboratives have been asking, ‘Are we aligning?’ and ‘How can we align better?’” explains Daniel Lanford, Ph.D., lead researcher for the TEAM. “The TEAM is the culmination of two years of research and learning about what critical elements are needed to successfully align across sectors. We are excited for communities to begin using these assessments and to report back to us their experience.”
Access the TEAM here.