How to Launch and Grow an ACH
CACHI & ACH-Developed Materials
PROGRESSING TOWARDS AN ACH
Developing an ACH is an iterative process involving a number of stages and interdependent steps. To help a collaborative chart its progress, CACHI has developed a Developmental Pathway, based on the experience of the first six years of the initiative.
Elements of the ACH orientation packet translated for Spanish-speaking audiences. Includes “About CACHI,” “The ACH Framework” and “Insights from the FIeld.”
Elementos del paquete de orientación de ACH traducidos para audiencias de habla hispana. Incluye “Acerca de CACHI”, “El Esquema de las ACH” y “Perspectivas de los Participantes sobre las ACH”.
This report is a comprehensive analysis of the first five years of ACH implementation in California. It offers ten key insights on how to successfully launch and grow an ACH gleaned from the experiences, successes and challenges of the first 13 ACHs launched in the state. These findings help inform future ACH implementation as the model scales and spreads to other geographies within California and nationally.
The complete ACH orientation packet for training, educating and communicating. Includes Welcome Letter, About CACHI, The ACH Framework, The Value Proposition, The ACH's Key Functions, How to Launch & Grow, Topline Messages, FAQs and 2023-25 Grantees fact sheets.
Executive Summary of the Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) Final 2017-22 Evaluation.
Health Affairs article authored by CACHI.
Describes six prominent or emerging forms of impact investments that may be applicable financing approaches for an Accountable Communities for Health.
Highlights reflections from ACHs on the benefits and challenges of developing an ACH and what difference they believe ACHs make in their communities.
Provides an overview of the various roles the ACH plays as a cross-sector collaborative in catalyzing community change and health equity.
Created at the CACHI 2022 convening to capture the themes and ideas discussed at the meeting.
In this overview video, learn how ACH's advance equity and community health in 13 communities across California.
How ACH Backbones Fuel Community Change
Provides an overview about CACHI and Accountable Communities for Health.
Describes progress in establishing ACHs in sites across California, highlighting the value ACHs bring to communities.
Provides an overview of CACHI and an Accountable Community for Health in Spanish.
Provides information in support of the Commentary authored by five leading health foundations calling for investment in Recovery and Equity Councils.
Cal Matters Commentary by 5 CACHI funders that describes how federal state & local COVID relief funds could catalyze creation of ACH-like Equity and Resiliency Councils.
One-page summary of how ACHs are creating value and equity by catalyzing alignment, leveling the playing field and establishing collective accountability.
Describes how ACHs are creating value for their communities, using case studies from Washington, Oregon and California.
Summarizes evaluation findings of CACHI covering the original six ACH communities and the first three years.
Offers an 11-module curriculum to help communities build and strengthen multi-sector collaboratives and Accountable Communities for Health.
Describes how ACHs are helping their communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the five key roles that they are playing.
The complete ACH orientation packet for training, educating and communicating. Includes Welcome Letter, About CACHI, The ACH Framework, The Value Proposition, The ACH's Key Functions, How to Launch & Grow, Topline Messages, FAQs and 2023-25 Grantees fact sheets.
Proposes a new federal program of Response and Resilience Accountability Councils, modeled on ACHs, to support communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
Describes how ACHs can support Cal AIM by providing the mechanism to build partnerships, coordinate services, engage community, and incorporate a prevention lens.
Provides evidence of success for the ACH model from California and other states.
Provides guidance on how to address ACH-related data issues, emphasizing connections between outcomes & interventions, and the data needed to track progress.
Provides an overview of the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative.
Shares early lessons and recommendations for establishing locally-governed Wellness Funds to support multi-sector collaboratives and prevention.
Provides detailed information about MHSA funding and how CACHI communities can access those resources in support of their goals.
Provides a vision and definition for a transformed health system to support community health and advance equity and compares and contrasts it with the current system.