All 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.
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 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.
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.
Provides a range of comprehensive strategies to address the fundamental drivers of health inequities.
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.
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.
Provides an online collection of 100+ papers, toolkits, and other resources on privacy and other legal issues related to data sharing.
Describes six prominent or emerging forms of impact investments that may be applicable financing approaches for an Accountable Communities for Health.
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.
Provides strategies for incorporating an equity lens into planning processes.
Defines and differentiates hospitals’ community-level SDOH activities.
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.”
Highlights reflections from ACHs on the benefits and challenges of developing an ACH and what difference they believe ACHs make in their communities.
Describes the health-related social needs Screening Tool from the federal Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model & shares promising practices for universal screening.
Opening commentary of a three-part series that examines the relationship between health and power building.
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.
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.