CACHI RESOURCES
Executive Summary: Advancing Value and Equity
One-page summary of how ACHs are creating value and equity by catalyzing alignment, leveling the playing field and establishing collective accountability.
Advancing Value and Equity in the Health System: The Case for Accountable Communities for Health
Describes how ACHs are creating value for their communities, using case studies from Washington, Oregon and California.
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.
The Power of Multi-sector Partnerships to Improve Population Health: What We Are Learning About Accountable Communities for Health
Summarizes key observations about the ACH model and provides policy implications for sustaining and scaling the ACH model and similar collaborative efforts.
CACHI: Building, Diversifying, Transforming Three-Year Interim Evaluation Brief (2017-2019)
Summarizes evaluation findings of CACHI covering the original six ACH communities and the first three years.
Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model Evaluation
Presents evaluation findings of the federal Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model, launched in 2017, that screens and connects beneficiaries to community resources.
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.
ACHs' Critical Role in COVID-19 Response: Findings from the First 90 Days
Describes how ACHs are helping their communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the five key roles that they are playing.
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.
Participatory Leadership for Community Inclusion: A report of a Community of Practice Focused on Community Engagement.
"Provides findings from a community of practice that explored what it means to engage and include community residents in the operations of ACH collaboratives. "
Demonstrating Success With Accountable Communities for Health
Provides evidence of success for the ACH model from California and other states.
Root Causes of Inequities Learning Guide and Worksheet
Step-by-step guide to uncovering root causes of health inequities and a tool to help track progress.
Accessing MHSA Funding: A Roadmap for CACHI Communities
Provides detailed information about MHSA funding and how CACHI communities can access those resources in support of their goals.
California's Health Care Paradox
Analysis of California’s state budget finds that health care spending has skyrocketed, leaving fewer dollars to fund programs that prevent illness at the community level.
Beyond the Grant
Offers modules with practical, user-friendly tools to answer common financing questions and develop action plans for moving beyond the grant.
Braiding and Blending Funds to Support Community Health: A Compendium of Resources and Examples
Provides a wealth of resources regarding how to bring various funding streams together through the use of two mechanisms: braiding and blending.
Social Determinants As Public Goods: A New Approach To Financing Key Investments In Healthy Communities
Proposes how a properly governed, collaborative approach to financing could enable health stakeholders to earn a financial return on their social determinants investments.