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.

Provides a framework for food system collaborations with health care provides along with legal and policy considerations for food system interventions.

Evaluates the existing evidence for effective interventions to address social determinants of health and social needs and identifies potential next steps.

Summarizes key observations about the ACH model and provides policy implications for sustaining and scaling the ACH model and similar collaborative efforts.

Provides a comprehensive inventory and roadmap for advancing anti-racism policies & creating community-level conditions that support health and opportunity for everyone.

Provides policy recommendations to the federal government for improving health and equity.

Recommends six key strategies for how payment and delivery system reforms can advance and achieve greater health equity.

Describes approaches to ensure that children and their families benefit from SDOH investments and the range of strategies and interventions needed by families.

Proposes a new health equity assessment framework for ACHs that highlights the main pathways and opportunities to address health equity.

Identifies 10 promising innovative community investment strategies for Southern California.

Provides easy-to-digest key concepts and a practical structure to guide sustainability planning for ACHs and other collaboratives.

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.

Describes how the community development, health, and financial sectors can better align their work to enable neighborhoods to better support health & financial well-being.

Provides a framework with meaningful solutions to help advance mental health policy in this country.

Provides evidence of success for the ACH model from California and other states.

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.

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.

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.