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The California Health Care Foundation is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need.
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A group of affordable housing developers meets regularly to learn how to access CalAIM Community Supports to help their tenants remain successfully housed.
Delta Center California brings together five teams of behavioral health and primary care leaders across California to advance behavioral health integration.
CHCF is working with partners to develop innovative, practical solutions for delivering mental health care to California’s mothers and expectant mothers in need.
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.
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.
With support from CHCF, Maternal Mental Health NOW partnered with the UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence to produce online trainings on perinatal mental health issues for health care clinicians, mental health providers, and social service providers who serve families with…
Up to 25 additional California community clinics have implemented Transitions Clinic programs to better meet the health needs of people recently released from incarceration.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
This two-year learning collaborative supports eight cross-sector teams of California-based organizations partnering to improve health care for people experiencing homelessness.
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.