
CACHI RESOURCES
Transformation in Action: How Accountable Communities for Health Promote Collaboration, Systems Change and Health Equity
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.
Well Being in the Nation Measurement Framework
Offers a set of common measures to assess and improve population and community health and well-being across sectors. Provides links, tools and data sources for community health improvement efforts.
Legal Bibliography to Support Data Sharing Partnerships for Health
Provides an online collection of 100+ papers, toolkits, and other resources on privacy and other legal issues related to data sharing.
California Accountable Communities for Health Roundtable: The ABCs of Social Impact Investing
Describes six prominent or emerging forms of impact investments that may be applicable financing approaches for an Accountable Communities for Health.
Now is the Time for Measuring Social Drivers of Health in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program
Describes the five potential Drivers of Health measures — food insecurity, housing instability, transportation, utility needs, and interpersonal safety — for Medicare.
Local Wellness Funds
Provides a set of online resources, practical tools and information regarding how to develop a local wellness fund, a key element of an ACH.
Community Benefits in California: A New Chapter
Summarizes the implications of Governor Newsom's 2022 proposed change to hospital community benefits requirements.
Centering Equity in Collective Impact
Reflects on the last 10 years of collective impact and identifies the importance of centering equity for collective impact to succeed.
Leveraging Community Information Exchanges® for Equitable and Inclusive Data: The CIE® Data Equity Framework
Provides guidance guide institutions away from systems that perpetuate harmful practices and towards anti-racist systems that empower communities.
Let's Get Healthy California
Tracks process on indicators aligned with six overarching goals, based on the Triple Aim, in support of a shared vision for health.
Democratizing Valuation: A Guide for Multi-Sector Collaboratives
Provides examples, including two CACHI sites, and a simplified set of valuation tools that multi-sector collaboratives can use to convey the value of their activity.
Building the Evidence Base for Social Determinants of Health Interventions
Evaluates the existing evidence for effective interventions to address social determinants of health and social needs and identifies potential next steps.
Caring for the Whole Child: A New Way to Finance Initiatives to Improve Children’s Health and Well-being Issue Brief
Describes approaches to ensure that children and their families benefit from SDOH investments and the range of strategies and interventions needed by families.
Selecting Indicators for Early Childhood Systems Change Projects
Provides a reference guide to help organizations identify, select, and track data indicators related to equitable health outcomes for young children and their families.
Innovative Community Investment Strategies: The Current State of Practice and a Vision for Greater implementation in Southern California
Identifies 10 promising innovative community investment strategies for Southern California.
Financial Sustainability Mini-Toolkit: Domestic Violence Collaboratives and Others
Provides easy-to-digest key concepts and a practical structure to guide sustainability planning for ACHs and other collaboratives.
Financing The Infrastructure Of Accountable Communities For Health Is Key To Long-Term Sustainability
Provides findings from a legal and policy review of funding streams that could help support the backbone function & infrastructure of an Accountable Community for Health.
Fostering Healthy Neighborhoods: Alignment across the community development, health and financial well-being sectors
Describes how the community development, health, and financial sectors can better align their work to enable neighborhoods to better support health & financial well-being.
Mapping Tools
Provides a collection of mapping tools for community development and health that can help demonstrate disparities and need, provide baseline data, document trends, etc.
Data Guidance for Accountable Communities for Health
Provides guidance on how to address ACH-related data issues, emphasizing connections between outcomes & interventions, and the data needed to track progress.