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    Future of Medi-Cal Commission 

    The Future of Medi-Cal Commission will work to develop a state plan for strengthening and protecting Medi-Cal.


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    Delta Center California: Fostering Collaboration and Collective Action for Better Care

    Delta Center California brings together five teams of behavioral health and primary care leaders across California to advance behavioral health integration.


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    Improving Maternal Mental Health Care

    CHCF is working with partners to develop innovative, practical solutions for delivering mental health care to California’s mothers and expectant mothers in need.


  • Members of the Promotor Program for Education in Drugs and Alcohol for Latine pilot through the Latinx Center of Excellence at the UCSF School of Medicine. (San Francisco) Photo Credit: PEDAL/UCSF
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    Promotor Program for Education in Drugs and Alcohol for Latinx

    Twenty promotors working with the Latinx community in San Francisco received specialized drug and alcohol education training in Spanish. The goal is that they will work with community members who have substance use disorder.


  • Doctor and patient have a friendly conversation.
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    Models of Care


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    Evaluation of Lay Counselor Academy

    CHCF is supporting an evaluation of The Lay Counselor Academy, which trains people in community settings with interest and relationship-based skills to offer mental health counseling even if they are not formally licensed to practice therapy.


  • Doctor listens to patient's heart at transition clinic.
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    Expansion of Transitions Clinic Network in California

    Up to 25 additional California community clinics have implemented Transitions Clinic programs to better meet the health needs of people recently released from incarceration.


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    From Corrections to Community: Reentry Health Care

    People in jail or prison experience high rates of physical and mental health problems within complex social contexts. CHCF is working with partners to improve the coordination and delivery of care for those leaving correctional settings and returning to the…


  • Street medicine team cleans wound on the leg of a woman experiencing homelessness.
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    Video Series: Street Medicine Teams Deliver Care

    These “video site visits” may be particularly helpful to clinicians or organizations interested in launching or expanding street medicine programs. Viewers will learn about different models, engagement strategies, and street-based health care interventions. The series captures the common philosophy guiding…


  • Street medicine team assists a woman experiencing homelessness.
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    Street Medicine in California: Delivering Care to People Who Are Unhoused

    People experiencing homelessness often have serious physical and behavioral health needs but little access to traditional health care facilities and providers. CHCF supports projects that expand proven models of street medicine programs that are responsive and equitably focused on people’s…


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    Community Health Worker & Promotor Workforce Capacity Building Collaborative

    The Community Health Worker & Promotor Workforce Capacity Building Collaborative (CBC) supports four regional teams across the state, which have committed to develop financially sustainable models to grow the CHW/P workforce in their region as a means to advance health…


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    Advancing Behavioral Health Outcomes in Primary Care

    The Advancing Behavioral Health Outcomes in Primary Care project is a learning collaborative of 14 CHCs with the goal of improving behavioral health outcomes, especially among Black, Latino/x, Indigenous, Asian Pacific Islander, LGBTQA, and non-English-speaking patients.


  • Illustration of doctor talking with patient who has just left prison.
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    The Health and Reentry Project

    This national effort seeks to promote continuity of health care between correctional and community settings. The project has published three papers about potential federal Medicaid policy changes that would permit covering people leaving incarceration in the period shortly before they…


  • Illustration of hand holding up housing and medical care
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    Partnerships for Action: California Health Care & Homelessness Learning Collaborative

    Learn how health care providers, social service teams, and managed care plans can effectively work together — across sectors — to improve care and outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.


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    Reducing Unnecessary C-Sections in California

    CHCF worked with partners statewide to promote higher-value maternity care by reducing the rate of unnecessary c-sections in five years to under 23.9% for low-risk deliveries.