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Scaling and Sustaining Community Health Work: An Evaluation of the Amplifying Impact Initiative
CHCF’s Amplifying Impact Initiative helped 28 California organizations expand community health worker services under Medi-Cal. Evaluation findings show trusted relationships, regional collaboratives, and workforce investment drive scale. But financial sustainability remains the central challenge.
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State Approaches for Medicaid Specialty Plans to Support Whole-Person Care
This brief highlights five states that developed specialty health plans specifically for people with serious behavioral health conditions.
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Pursuing Excellent Care: Seven California Case Studies on Using REAL Data for Quality Improvement
These case studies reveal how 7 health care organizations use race, ethnicity, and language data to understand patient needs, target medical resources more effectively, and improve quality of care.
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How Los Angeles Community Clinics Use the Collaborative Care Model to Improve Maternal Mental Health
This explainer provides an overview of the Los Angeles County Maternal Mental Health Access initiative’s goals, strategic components, and lessons to date.
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Pioneering Participation: Lessons from the First Medi-Cal Member Advisory Committee
California’s first Medi-Cal Member Advisory Committee offers early lessons on engaging enrollees in health care policy development and decisionmaking.
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CIN Case Study: Coordinated Behavioral Care IPA
This case study, originally published in 2019, describes an independent practice association’s journey implementing Healthify, an online social service resource directory and referral system, across a large network.
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Strengthening the Behavioral Health Workforce: Evaluation of the Lay Counselor Academy
An evaluation of the Lay Counselor Academy finds the program effectively upskills health and social workers to provide mental health support. The program could play a pivotal role in addressing immediate and long-term shortages in the mental health workforce.
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CalAIM Community Supports Early Adopters: Spotlight on Asthma Remediation
In Kern County, two organizations are partnering to deliver asthma remediation. This fact sheet provides tips and strategies for other organizations that want to offer this Community Support.
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CalAIM Community Supports Early Adopters: Spotlight on Nursing Home Transitions and Diversion
In San Mateo County, two organizations are partnering successfully to deliver two Community Supports to help people who want to transition out of nursing homes — or avoid going to one in the first place. This fact sheet provides tips…
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CalAIM Community Supports Early Adopters: Personal Care and Homemaker Services, and Respite Services
Two organizations in Kern County are partnering successfully to offer Community Supports to people who need help with activities of daily living. This fact sheet provides strategies for other organizations seeking to offer these services.
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CalAIM Experiences: Central Valley Implementers
Learn how implementation of CalAIM is unfolding California’s Central Valley in this survey of people who work at managed care plans, behavioral health organizations, community-based organizations, and social services organizations.
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CalAIM Community Supports Early Adopters: Spotlight on Sobering Centers
Learn implementation tips from two organizations in Orange County partnering successfully to offer sobering services. Sobering centers provide an alternative destination for people publicly intoxicated and who might otherwise be transported to an emergency department or jail.
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CalAIM Community Supports Early Adopters: Spotlight on Day Habilitation
This fact sheet profiles two organizations partnering to offer day habilitation — a CalAIM Community Support — and offers key takeaways for other organizations interested in launching the service.
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Lessons from the Field: How Health Care and Homeless Service Providers Partner for Action
Over 70 homelessness and health care experts converged last fall to exchange ideas and spotlight innovative programs aimed at helping people experiencing homelessness. The meeting was part of the Partnerships for Action collaborative initiative spreading best practices across sectors.
