Engaging with CalAIM: Quick Links for Community-Based Organizations: This one-page flyer highlights the role of CBOs, available implementation funds, and opportunities for CBOs to get involved and obtain sustainable Medi-Cal funding through CalAIM. (ITUP)

Medi-Cal Community Supports Explainer (PDF)
Community Supports are services not traditionally covered through Medi-Cal and are meant to address the health-related social needs of eligible members. (Aurrera Health Group)

Enhanced Care Management (ECM) Provider Toolkit (PDF)
Enhanced Care Management (ECM) addresses clinical and nonclinical needs through coordination of services and comprehensive case management for Medi-Cal members. This toolkit provides information about what ECM is, who it serves, and what is expected of those who provide ECM. (Aurrera Health Group)

PATH Fact Sheet (PDF)
Providing Access and Transforming Health (PATH) is a CalAIM initiative focused on capacity building and infrastructure, for community providers (including CBOs) to better serve Medi-Cal members statewide. Visit the DHCS PATH web page to learn more. (DHCS)

CalAIM: Community-Based Organizations Poised to Partner with Medi-Cal
This blog post overview provides examples of how integral CBOs are to the vision and potential of CalAIM implementation. (CHCF)

The Role of CBO Networks in CalAIM: Seven Key Considerations
This brief explains the roles, opportunities, and challenges that CBO networks present in CalAIM. (CHCF)

Assessing Feasibility and Readiness

These tools are available in different formats that require different levels of engagement.

Nonprofit Readiness for Health Partnership
This readiness tool supports CBOs in assessing key capacities so they can be well positioned to partner with health care organizations. It includes 32 questions across six areas — organizational fit with partnership, financial capabilities, service delivery, measuring performance, people, and partnerships and networks. This tool is available as a downloadable Excel file. (Nonprofit Finance Fund)

Partnership Readiness Assessment
This more extensive tool supports CBOs in gauging their readiness for health care partnership and provides guidance on successfully preparing, securing, and maintaining contracts. This assessment is completed in a web browser. While the tool is free to use, an account is required to access it. (Aging and Disability Business Institute)

Financial Planning

Health Care and Community-Based Organization Partnership: What Does It Cost? (Excel)
This tool provides a simplified framework to help CBOs assess their total estimated cost of partnering with health care organizations. (Nonprofit Finance Fund)

Budget and Financial Planning Tool
This tool helps CBOs to develop project-specific budgets and to plan for project-related financial sustainability over a five-year time frame. (Scan Foundation)

Medi-Cal Managed Care Health Plan Directory
This directory features a list of Medi-Cal managed care health plans by county. Most MCPs have pages on their websites dedicated to CalAIM including contact names and ways to engage. (DHCS)

Video: Contracting with Managed Care Plans (CalAIM Links2022 Statewide Session No. 2)
Learn about contracting with MCPs in this video starting at 37:00 and running through 52:30. (HealthBegins)

Model Contracts for Community-Based Integrated Care Networks

This resource has three model contracts that provide examples of ways networks can frame their contractual relationships. While these sample contracts are not CalAIM specific, they can inform contracting with an MCP. (Aging and Disability Business Institute)

Collaborative Planning and Implementation
Stakeholders in regional collaborative planning groups are working together to identify how PATH and other CalAIM funding initiatives can address ECM and Community Supports program implementation gaps and improve outcomes. CBOs and other county-based providers are strongly encouraged to participate and can register here. (DHCS)

TA Marketplace
The CalAIM PATH Technical Assistance (TA) Marketplace launched in January 2023 to provide support for organizations — including CBOs — working to implement CalAIM. TA offerings will include off-the-shelf projects resources and connections for hands-on TA. (DHCS)

Billing Better in CalAIM
This issue brief outlines key challenges with each step of the billing process and provides recommendations for addressing them. (CHCF)

Housing-Related Community Supports
CBOs may want to share this helpful guide with their managed care plan partners. The handbook is intended for leaders in health care plans. (CHCF)

Food as Medicine Collaborative Technical Assistance Resources
The Food as Medicine Collaborative website features TA resources and tools (such as a readiness assessment survey) for health entities interested in providing medically supportive food and nutrition services through CalAIM. (Food as Medicine Collaborative)