CACHI RESOURCES
Transformation in Action: How Accountable Communities for Health Promote Collaboration, Systems Change and Health Equity
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.
ACH Orientation Packet
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.
Transforming Community Health in California: Findings from the First 5 Years of ACH Implementation
Executive Summary of the Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) Final 2017-22 Evaluation.
Medicaid Reinvestment Requirements Can Improve Community Health And Equity
Health Affairs article authored by CACHI.
Equity in Multisector Collaboration Toolkit
A toolkit from Blue Shield of California Foundation.
Status of Health Equity Report
Examines the underlying socioeconomic factors that have a significant influence on health & well-being, and provides ways to address them through collaboration.
Community-Level Actions On The Social Determinants Of Health: A Typology For Hospitals
Defines and differentiates hospitals’ community-level SDOH activities.
Community Power and Health Equity: Closing the Gap between Scholarship and Practice
Highlights learnings from RWJF initiative "Lead Local: Community Driven Change and the Power of Collective Action.
Resources for Collaboration and Power Sharing Between Government Agencies and Community Power-Building Organizations
Guides health departments through the why and how of partnering with Community Power-Building Organizations (CPBOs) to advance health equity.
Centering Equity in Community Health Partnerships
Drawn from a longer report, offers the 3 questions to center equity in community health partnerships, with considerations specific to public health agencies.
Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States
Describes the different roles intermediaries can play and provides examples, including several CA ACHs, of where they have been used in practice.
Building Community-Centered Health Emerging Lessons from Clinical-Community Partnerships in North Carolina
Evaluation of three Community-Centered Health projects that focused on shifts in health care practices to look beyond the walls of health care facilities.
ACH Infrastructure Fuels Community Change
Provides an overview of the various roles the ACH plays as a cross-sector collaborative in catalyzing community change and health equity.
Local Wellness Funds
Provides a set of online resources, practical tools and information regarding how to develop a local wellness fund, a key element of an ACH.
Centering Equity in Collective Impact
Reflects on the last 10 years of collective impact and identifies the importance of centering equity for collective impact to succeed.
How Accountable Communities for Health Can Lead Multi-Sector Partnerships to Address the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Describes how California ACHs can support the Network of Care Milestones related to the ACEs Aware Trauma-Informed Network of Care Roadmap.
Essential Integrative Activities Within Cross-sector Population Health Networks: An Organizing Framework
Describes five broad categories of integrative activities along with a roadmap or checklist that partners can use to assess itself.
HEALTH EQUITY ZONES (Rhode Island): A Toolkit for Building Healthy and Resilient Communities
Provides a step-by-step guide to emulating Rhode Island's initiative to create health equity zones throughout the state.
A Primer for Multi-Sector Health Partnerships in Rural Areas and Small Cities
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.