CACHI RESOURCES
Legal & Policy Strategies for Health Care & Food System Partners
Provides a framework for food system collaborations with health care provides along with legal and policy considerations for food system interventions.
Building the Evidence Base for Social Determinants of Health Interventions
Evaluates the existing evidence for effective interventions to address social determinants of health and social needs and identifies potential next steps.
The Engine of Population Health Networks: Understanding & Using Integrative Activities
Provides findings & examples that explores integrative functions and mutii-sector collaboratives (note: the report links to other resources associated w/ the initiative).
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.
The Power of Multi-sector Partnerships to Improve Population Health: What We Are Learning About Accountable Communities for Health
Summarizes key observations about the ACH model and provides policy implications for sustaining and scaling the ACH model and similar collaborative efforts.
Seven Ways Businesses Can Align with Public Health for Bold Action and Innovation
Offers recommendations of ways to support collaboration between business and public health.
Healthy Neighborhood Investments: A Policy Scan & Strategy Map
Provides a comprehensive inventory and roadmap for advancing anti-racism policies & creating community-level conditions that support health and opportunity for everyone.
CACHI: Building, Diversifying, Transforming Three-Year Interim Evaluation Brief (2017-2019)
Summarizes evaluation findings of CACHI covering the original six ACH communities and the first three years.
Powering Change: Building Healthier, Equitable Communities Together
Offers an 11-module curriculum to help communities build and strengthen multi-sector collaboratives and Accountable Communities for Health.
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.
Aligning Systems with Communities to Advance Equity through Shared Measurement: Guiding Principles
Offers five Guiding Principles to inform measurement that effectively aligns systems’ actions with the needs and priorities of the communities to address inequities.
Investing in Health: A Federal Action Plan
Provides policy recommendations to the federal government for improving health and equity.
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.
Centering Equity in Health Care Delivery and Payment Reform: A Guide for California Policymakers
Recommends six key strategies for how payment and delivery system reforms can advance and achieve greater health equity.
Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model Evaluation
Presents evaluation findings of the federal Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model, launched in 2017, that screens and connects beneficiaries to community resources.
Caring for the Whole Child: A New Way to Finance Initiatives to Improve Children’s Health and Well-being Issue Brief
Describes approaches to ensure that children and their families benefit from SDOH investments and the range of strategies and interventions needed by families.
Opportunities to Advance SDOH Efforts Through Pooled Funding
Describes how a pooled fund could help support collaborative investment in the social determinants of health.
Selecting Indicators for Early Childhood Systems Change Projects
Provides a reference guide to help organizations identify, select, and track data indicators related to equitable health outcomes for young children and their families.
Solutions for Local Leaders to Improve Mental Health and Well-Being During and Post-COVID-19
Offers recommended strategies that are evidence informed to help ease the mental health and addiction challenges stemming from the pandemic.
ACHs' Critical Role in COVID-19 Response: Findings from the First 90 Days
Describes how ACHs are helping their communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the five key roles that they are playing.