The ALIGN for Health and Well-Being Toolkit

The ALIGN (Advancing Local Insight, Generational Investment, and Narrative) for Health and Well-Being Toolkit is intended to assist community leaders in their efforts to promote health and well-being, with a focus on promoting collective well-being narratives, prioritizing community measures that capture positive health and social context, and aligning investments to strengthen cross-sectoral health impacts. The toolkit helps community leaders address common sticking points in their progress toward advancing health and well-being, building on the Sentinel Communities project, a collaboration between RAND and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The toolkit comprises explanations of health and well-being concepts; individual, small-group, and whole-group activities; visuals to share with workshop participants; resources on health and well-being topics; and more. The toolkit benefits individual users but is primarily meant for community groups, guiding participants through a series of exercises that build across modules. This community toolkit and its exercises and examples are primarily geared toward U.S. communities, but there are insights that might be useful for communities outside the United States.