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  • Section 4. Training and Support

    This section of the Advancing California’s Community Health Worker & Promotor Workforce in Medi-Cal Resource Center outlines what training looks like for CHW/Ps, CHW/P supervisors, interdisciplinary team members, and other organizational staff.

    •Health Workforce

  • Section 3. Roles and Recruitment

    This section of the Advancing California’s Community Health Worker & Promotor Workforce in Medi-Cal Resource Center describes the various roles of CHW/Ps and how to successfully recruit and retain them for their specific roles.

    •Health Workforce

  • Section 2. Program and Partnership Development

    This section of the Advancing California’s Community Health Worker & Promotor Workforce in Medi-Cal Resource Center explores considerations for program design, goals, financing, and partnership development to help establish and sustain successful program approaches.

    •Health Workforce

  • Challenges and Ingredients for Success

    •Health Workforce
  • Nurse and patient talking to doctor via telehealth visit
    Feature Story

    Digital Start-Up Is Transforming Mental Health Care in Schools

    The CHCF Health Innovation Fund has invested in Hazel Health’s vision for critical services for students and young adults.

    •Technology and Innovation
  • Health Starts with Family Covered CA mural in Huntington Beach, CA
    Behind the Headlines

    State, Federal Actions Protected Health Coverage for Millions During Pandemic

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: The percentage of Americans with health insurance remained stable during 2020 despite a hobbled economy.

    •Health Insurance Coverage

  • Organizations React to Medi-Cal Managed Care Procurement Request for Proposals

    In June DHCS issued a draft RFP for the first-ever statewide procurement for commercial Medi-Cal managed care plans. CHCF asked organizations to share the comments they submitted to the agency about the RFP. This report presents common themes from across…

    •Health Equity
  • illustration of hand lifting people through a network
    Expert Perspective

    Shared Information Has the Power to Change Californians’ Lives for the Better

    The pandemic challenges have shown that California must update health data systems to protect public health, improve care delivery, and help health and human services systems care for the whole person.

    •Health Equity
  • Charcoal illustration of two face profiles overlapping each other
    Quick Read

    Bridging the Divide Between Mental Health Care and Addiction Treatment

    In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, a CHCF senior program officer shares the heartbreaking story of her son’s death from mental illness and substance use, the result of being caught between two siloed health care systems. Her desire to prevent…

    •Behavioral Health
  • Expert Perspective

    Sobering Centers Offer Clients Pathway to Stable Lives

    A conversation with Shannon Smith-Bernardin, PhD, RN, a national leader in the field.

    •Behavioral Health
  • A helicopter ambulance transports a patient from El Centro Regional Medical Center
    Behind the Headlines

    COVID-19 Financial Costs Are Surging Too

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: Insurance companies across the country have been reinstating cost sharing for people being treated for the disease, and it isn’t cheap.

    •Primary Care
  • Community Regional Medical Center
    Behind the Headlines

    Hospitals in California’s Central Valley Flooded with COVID-19 Patients

    Stories That Caught Our Attention: Health care workers and public health agencies are overwhelmed.

    •Primary Care
  • Shannon Smith-Bernardin works with a patient at the San Francisco Sobering Center.
    Quick Read

    Sobering Centers Explained

    Sobering centers offer a cost-effective alternative for providing care to people with acute intoxication whose public alcohol or drug use puts themselves or others at risk. New interest in the decades-old approach has been sparked by recent CalAIM (California Advancing…

    •Behavioral Health
  • small plant emerges from crack in sidewalk
    Data Insight

    Unexpected Growth in California Health Insurance During COVID-19 Recession

    Data from California regulators show that — despite job losses — health insurance enrollment in the pandemic year 2020 increased by over one million (3.3%). State and federal policies designed to help people get and keep coverage were important factors.

    •Health Insurance Coverage
  • Flojaune Cofer
    Expert Perspective

    Seeking COVID Justice Through Policy Change

    Public Health Advocates, a California organization that advances policies to reduce health disparities, created an initiative to respond to the deep-rooted inequities brought into focus by the pandemic.

    •Health Equity