Program areas at CHCF
Advancing people-centered care: chcf supports care systems to work collaboratively to ensure people receive responsive, comprehensive, and coordinated services that support their health and well-being and reduce inequities in care. This work includes: 1) behavioral health transformation: chcf aims to transform mental health and substance use treatment so that wherever and however the care is delivered, it is effective, appropriate, and accessible improving outcomes and reducing inequities. 2) care for people with complex needs: chcf aims to help medi-cal enrollees with challenging health or social circumstances get high-quality medical care and supportive services that improve their lives. 3) advancing black health equity: chcf aims to improve care and outcomes for black californians by working with health care partners to interrupt racism, build transparency and accountability around equitable care, and diversify the health care workforce.
Laying the Foundation: chcf aims to build a strong Foundation for delivering meaningful change in California's health care system by providing timely research, supporting health care journalism, training leaders, and developing cross-sector networks. This work includes: 1) market analysis and insight: chcf aims to provide research and analysis on California's market-wide care ecosystem, with a particular focus on how that system is structured and performing for californians with low incomes. 2) supporting high-quality health journalism: chcf supports health care journalism so that mainstream and community/ethnic media outlets can provide californians with access to timely, relevant information about the most pressing health care issues. 3) building leadership: chcf aims to support leadership and skill-building for California's health care professionals and state policy partners, as well as to support learning opportunities for organizations improving care delivery in the safety net. 4) bridging the innovation gap: chcf aims to develop information, networks, and communication platforms that enable safety-net providers and health plans to work with entrepreneurs on delivery system improvement.
Improving access: chcf aims to advance state policy reforms and delivery system transformation to improve coverage and care. This work includes: 1) access to affordable coverage: chcf aims to advance state policies and practices that ensure that all californians with low incomes have affordable coverage and that medi-cal enrollees can get the care they need when they need it. 2) access to primary care: chcf aims to advance policy, payment, and delivery system reforms to improve access by californians with low incomes to high-quality, linguistically and culturally responsive primary care inclusive of behavioral health care. 3) access to specialty care: chcf aims to spread the use of telehealth in California's safety net and to spur medi-cal policy and payment reforms to improve access to specialty care for californians with low incomes.
Across our three primary goals, chcf also uses a variety of tools to increase the impact of our grant making. Our external engagement work uses policy convenings, research and analysis, and strategic communications to support the programmatic work of the Foundation. 1) convening: we bring stakeholders together to find solutions, spread knowledge, and create the impetus for change. 2) research: we create a data and policy analysis agenda that helps decisionmakers make informed choices. 3) engagement: we use our voice and relationships to address health care problems and find solutions.