Strategies for Systems Change | Resources
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.
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 findings from evaluation of the Parks After Dark program, including savings to the county as well as health and social outcomes for youth and young adults.
Executive Summary of the Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) Final 2017-22 Evaluation.
Provides a range of comprehensive strategies to address the fundamental drivers of health inequities.
A toolkit from Collective Impact Forum.
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.
A high-level overview of local and state public policy strategies to prevent and address asthma: health care, childcare and schools, home environment and the outdoors.
Summarizes various various, distinct funding opportunities available to help communities and providers transition to Cal AIM.
Provides relevant evidence on the costs of health-related social need interventions and/or their impact on health care utilization and cost of care for use with ROI Calc.
Provides session videos and resources from a September 2022 convening “Operationalizing Equity-Promoting Policies to Improve the Social Determinants of Health.”
Describes the five potential Drivers of Health measures — food insecurity, housing instability, transportation, utility needs, and interpersonal safety — for Medicare.
Provides individuals and organizations messaging and graphics to share on social media aimed at raising awareness of ACEs and domestic violence.
Identifies non-clinical community-wide approaches that have evidence reporting positive health impacts, results in 5 years and cost-effectiveness and or cost reductions.
Identifies four dimensions of value related to cross-sector collaboration: intrinsic benefits, community engagement, outcomes, & sustainable system-level change.
Describes & summarizes scientific evidence behind 8 effective strategies, which involve community-clinical links, for lowering high blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Provides information regarding financing, certification, education and other elements of Community Health Worker programs across the country.
How Accountable Communities for Health Can Lead Multi-Sector Partnerships to Address the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Provides a framework for food system collaborations with health care provides along with legal and policy considerations for food system interventions.
Offers recommendations of ways to support collaboration between business and public health.
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.
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.
Offers recommended strategies that are evidence informed to help ease the mental health and addiction challenges stemming from the pandemic.
Provides a guiding framework for the things that all people and places need in order to thrive, built around vital conditions.
Proposes a new health equity assessment framework for ACHs that highlights the main pathways and opportunities to address health equity.
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 findings from the field about barriers to, and accelerators for, health care to carry out backbone or integrator functions as part of multi-sector collaborative.