Equity
A selection of informational materials to promote further understanding and development of the ACH model.
Describes key practices for facilitating regional cross-sector collaboration and alignment that creates the conditions for lasting change.
Describe prácticas clave para facilitar la colaboración y alineación intersectorial regional que cree las condiciones para un cambio duradero.
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.
Provides a range of comprehensive strategies to address the fundamental drivers of health inequities.
A toolkit from Blue Shield of California Foundation.
A toolkit from Collective Impact Forum.
Examines the underlying socioeconomic factors that have a significant influence on health & well-being, and provides ways to address them through collaboration.
Provides session videos and resources from a September 2022 convening “Operationalizing Equity-Promoting Policies to Improve the Social Determinants of Health.”
Opening commentary of a three-part series that examines the relationship between health and power building.
Guides health departments through the why and how of partnering with Community Power-Building Organizations (CPBOs) to advance health equity.
Drawn from a longer report, offers the 3 questions to center equity in community health partnerships, with considerations specific to public health agencies.
Summarizes findings from a study on six ACHs operating in CA and WA, focusing on the role of local context and power dynamics on efforts to improve equity.
Helps health care organizations to increase the primary care improvement efforts that center racial equity.
Describes perspectives of Medicaid managed care organizations on emerging promising practices of addressing social determinants of health among their Medicaid enrollees.
Reflects on the last 10 years of collective impact and identifies the importance of centering equity for collective impact to succeed.
Provides guidance guide institutions away from systems that perpetuate harmful practices and towards anti-racist systems that empower communities.
Recommends six key strategies for how payment and delivery system reforms can advance and achieve greater health equity.
Provides a reference guide to help organizations identify, select, and track data indicators related to equitable health outcomes for young children and their families.
Offers recommended strategies that are evidence informed to help ease the mental health and addiction challenges stemming from the pandemic.
Explores the potential of ACHs to address the social determinants of health and suggests a measurement framework to assist ACHs in pursuing a pathway to health equity.
Proposes a new health equity assessment framework for ACHs that highlights the main pathways and opportunities to address health equity.
Proposes a new federal program of Response and Resilience Accountability Councils, modeled on ACHs, to support communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
Highlights the value of ensuring the involvement of those with lived experience in policy and systems change in multi-sector collaboratives.
Provides a collection of mapping tools for community development and health that can help demonstrate disparities and need, provide baseline data, document trends, etc.
Provides a framework for assessing the role of partnerships between community-based organizations and healthcare in contributing to equitable health outcomes.
Highlights examples of how CHW/Ps add value to organizations, how their work is financed, and emerging opportunities to scale and sustain that work within California.
Charts a pathway to strengthen and transform our local democracies.
Step-by-step guide to uncovering root causes of health inequities and a tool to help track progress.
Provides tools to improve communications about the social determinants of health to help health care, public health and human services leaders find common ground.
Provides a planning guide and curriculum for implementing a resident engagement strategy.