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.

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.

Defines and differentiates hospitals’ community-level SDOH activities.

Highlights learnings from RWJF initiative "Lead Local: Community Driven Change and the Power of Collective Action.

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.

Describes the different roles intermediaries can play and provides examples, including several CA ACHs, of where they have been used in practice.

Evaluation of three Community-Centered Health projects that focused on shifts in health care practices to look beyond the walls of health care facilities.

Provides an overview of the various roles the ACH plays as a cross-sector collaborative in catalyzing community change and health equity.

Provides a set of online resources, practical tools and information regarding how to develop a local wellness fund, a key element of an ACH.

Reflects on the last 10 years of collective impact and identifies the importance of centering equity for collective impact to succeed.

Describes how California ACHs can support the Network of Care Milestones related to the ACEs Aware Trauma-Informed Network of Care Roadmap.

Describes five broad categories of integrative activities along with a roadmap or checklist that partners can use to assess itself.

Provides a step-by-step guide to emulating Rhode Island's initiative to create health equity zones throughout the state.

Provides guidance and resources to assist small cities and rural communities in developing multi-sector approaches to help all individuals to live long, healthy lives.

Describes how a pooled fund could help support collaborative investment in the social determinants of health.

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.

Profiles characteristics of people who are impressive stewards of change and are helping to grow the entire field of system stewardship for well-being.

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 for assessing the role of partnerships between community-based organizations and healthcare in contributing to equitable health outcomes.

Describes the ACH model with a focus on its central operating principle--collective accountability--as both a driver and an indicator of permanent systems change.

Describes key practices for facilitating regional cross-sector collaboration and alignment that creates the conditions for lasting change.

Provides an assessment tool and process for identifying strengths and weaknesses of a collaborative's current leadership efforts.

Findings from research about the development of multi-sector partnerships and how well they are poised to lead health transformation.