Access to Care
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (ACA)
Improving the Road to ACA Coverage: Lessons Learned on Outreach, Education, and Enrollment for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities
A report from Action Health Justice, provides a roadmap for outreach and enrollment assisters and policymakers heading into the next Open Enrollment Period to ensure those eligible get enrolled and stay enrolled in health care coverage.
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2014 California Wellness Foundation-Field Health Policy Poll
A report from The California Wellness Foundation and the Field Poll, features results from a survey of Californians about their opinions of the ACA.
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From Coverage to Care
A resource from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, helps people with new health care coverage understand their benefits and connect to primary care and the appropriate preventive services.
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COVERED CALIFORNIA
Covering All of California: Voices from Southeast Asian American Communities from the First Year of Covered California
A report from the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, examines outreach efforts and enrollment for Covered California in Southeast Asian American communities in California.
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What’s Ahead for Covered California? Medium-Term Policy Considerations
A set of briefs from Insure the Uninsured Project, identifies policy areas and recommendations for Covered California to consider in its three to five year strategy.
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Marketplace Consumer Assistance Programs and Promising Practices for Enrolling Racially and Ethnically Diverse Communities
A report from the San Francisco Foundation, examines navigator and in-person assister programs that educate and enroll racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse populations in health insurance.
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Analysis of 2015 Premium Changes in the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplaces
A brief from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, examines premium changes for 2015 in health insurance marketplaces, including Covered California.
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Taking Stock and Taking Steps: A Report from the Field after the First Year of Marketplace Consumer Assistance under the ACA
A report from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, captures insights from those who helped consumers navigate the ACA’s first open enrollment period.
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Survey of Health Insurance Marketplace Assister Programs
A report from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, examines the experience of Assister Programs in conducting outreach and enrollment assistance during the first Open Enrollment.
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MEDI-CAL
Transforming Drug Medi-Cal: Key Considerations for a Waiver Amendment
A brief from Insure the Uninsured Project, examines strategies to improve substance use disorder treatment in Medi-Cal.
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The Impact of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP): What Does the Research Tell Us?
A brief from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, reviews data and research about the impact of Medicaid and CHIP on low-income children.
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SAFETY NET
Where are California’s Uninsured Now?
A report from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, features survey results that shed light on the remaining uninsured in California.
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Opportunities for Whole-Person Care in California
A report from John Snow, Inc., the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, and the California Health Care Safety Net Institute, examines the health care needs of vulnerable populations in California.
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OTHER
Bringing It to the Community: Successful Programs that Increase the Use of Clinical Preventive Services by Vulnerable Older Populations
A policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, focuses on expanding and sustaining clinical preventive services in the community and reaching diverse populations.
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An Inside Look at Chronic Disease and Health Care among Hispanics in the United States
A report from the National Council of La Raza, examines rates of chronic disease in Latinos and how they interact with the health care system.
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Quality Field Notes: Improving Equity in Health Care
A resource from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines ways to reduce health disparities for people of color.
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Prevention
HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIVING
Hiding Under a Health Halo: Examining the Data Behind Health Claims on Sugary Beverages
A policy brief from the Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health at UC Berkeley and the California Center for Health Policy Advocacy, takes a look at popular sugary drinks to understand their potential impact on young people who are primary consumers of these beverages.
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Understanding the Role of Community Development Finance in Improving Access to Healthy Food
A report from ChangeLab Solutions and The Food Trust, discusses Community Development Finance Institutions as an alternative to conventional lending for financing supermarkets and other small businesses.
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Food Marketing: Using Toys to Market Children’s Meals
A brief from Healthy Eating Research, examines the evidence related to restaurant marketing practices using toys and discusses policy implications.
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Rural Childhood Obesity Prevention Toolkit
A resource from Leadership for Healthy Communities, helps local and state leaders advance innovative, evidence-informed strategies for improving health in rural towns, counties, tribal lands, and schools.
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Building The Case For Racial Equity In The Food System
A report from the Center for Social Inclusion, defines a racially equitable food system – from field to farm to fork – and lays out steps toward achieving that goal.
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California Action Guide
A fact sheet from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, accompanies the State Indicator Report on Physical Activity and includes California-specific information on ways to increase physical activity.
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2014 State Indicator Report on Physical Activity
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, presents state-level information on physical activity behaviors and on environmental and policy supports for physical activity.
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LAND USE
Building in Healthy Infill
A report from ChangeLab Solutions, describes how infill strategies can be used to create healthy communities.
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Shared Use Clearinghouse
A resource from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, features a collection of research and tools to help implement shared use agreements.
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HOUSING
Proactive Rental Inspection Ordinance
A resource from ChangeLab Solutions, provides the key components of proactive rental inspection programs and offers options for tailoring the ordinance to meet the needs of a particular locality.
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TRANSPORTATION
Buses, Boots, and Bicycles: Exploring Collaboration Between Safe Routes to School and School Busing Professionals to Get Children to School Safely and Healthily
A report from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, presents a comprehensive look at student transportation in the United States and proposes ways to ensure that all children safely access their local schools.
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Crosswalk: Where the Needs of School Principals and Safe Routes to School Programs Intersect
A toolkit from the California Safe Routes to School Technical Assistance Resource Center, highlights solutions to the most common barriers identified by principals and vice-principals to supporting a Safe Routes to School program.
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Safety and Health for All Ages: Safe Routes to School in Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities
A report from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, examines the effectiveness of Safe Routes to School programs in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
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Best Practices Library
A resource from TransForm, features tools to address health and equity in regional transportation decisions.
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Dangerous by Design 2014
A report from Smart Growth America, takes a look at where pedestrian fatalities happen and who’s most at risk, presenting data from every county, metro area, and state.
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Improving Modeling and Data Collection for Active Transportation
A report from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, details recommendations that cities, counties, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, and the State of California could take to improve our understanding of the benefits of active transportation investments for health, congestion, and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Making Our Communities Healthy Through Bicycling and Walking
A fact sheet from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, highlights how bicycling and walking can improve health.
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Activity-Based Travel Demand Models: A Primer
A report from the Strategic Highway Research Program and the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, examines strategies to promote physical activity through transportation planning.
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First Mile, Last Mile: How Federal Transit Funds Can Improve Access to Transit for People Who Walk and Bike
A report from Advocacy Advance, looks at how walking and bicycling can be integrated with transit, and which federal trust funds can support projects and programs to increase accessibility among people who walk, bicycle, and take transit.
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Driving Progress, Fueling Savings: How California Is Tackling Global Warming, Cutting Oil Use, and Saving Drivers Money
A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, examines the progress of California’s policies to confront climate change.
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TOBACCO
Left Behind in the Smoke: How Exemptions in California’s Smokefree Workplace Act Impact Health Inequities
A report from ChangeLab Solutions, examine how exemptions in the California Smokefree Workplace Act contribute to tobacco related health inequities particularly among the working poor and communities of color.
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OTHER
Closing the Loop: Why We Need to Invest — and Reinvest — in Prevention
A report from the Institute of Medicine, Prevention Institute, and The California Endowment, proposes a sustainable model for funding prevention strategies.
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CalEnviro Screen 2.0
A resource from the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, features a tool that identifies California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution.
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Assessing and Promoting Adoption of the Community-Centered Health Home Model
A report from Prevention Institute, offers lessons that can help guide health-transformation and community prevention efforts.
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Other
MENTAL HEALTH
Tools for Suicide Prevention, Improved Student Mental Health, and Stigma Reduction
A resource from the California Mental Health Services Authority and the California Reducing Disparities Project, features resources to address suicide prevention, student mental health, and stigma reduction among California’s diverse populations.
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Three Out of Four Children with Mental Health Needs in California Do Not Receive Treatment Despite Having Health Care Coverage
A policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, identifies children at risk for mental health needs and highlights some barriers to their receiving mental health services.
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Culture and Community: Suicide Prevention Resources for Native Americans in California
A report from the Know the Signs of Suicide Prevention Campaign, provides resources for using social marketing to promote suicide prevention in the Native American community.
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Improving LGBTQ Student Mental Health
A fact sheet from the LGBTQ Reducing Disparities Project, focuses on information important to LGBTQ student mental health.
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Suicide Prevention for LGBTQ Communities
A fact sheet from the LGBTQ Reducing Disparities Project, highlights strategies to prevent suicide in LGBTQ communities.
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Stigma & Discrimination Reduction for LGBTQ Communities
A fact sheet from the LGBTQ Reducing Disparities Project, examines strategies to confront stigma and discrimination for LGBTQ communities.
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IMMIGRATION
Looking Forward: Immigrant Contributions to the Golden State
A report from the California Immigrant Policy Center and the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at the University of Southern California, details immigrants contributions to California, with updated information on demographics, labor force participation, economic contributions, entrepreneurship, and numbers of eligible voters among all immigrants.
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Critical Choices in Post-Recession California: Investing in the Educational and Career Success of Immigrant Youth
A report from the Migration Policy Institute, examines the educational experiences and outcomes of first- and second-generation immigrant youth ages 16 to 26 across California’s educational institutions.
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Majority of California Voters Supports President Obama Taking Executive Action to Deal with the Growing Number of Immigrant Children Entering the Country Illegally
A report from the Field Poll, features results of a survey of California voters about immigration.
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POVERTY
New Census Data Show That More Than One in Seven Californians – One-Third of Them Children – Lived in Poverty in 2013
A report from the California Budget Project, analyzes Census data on the number of Californians living in poverty.
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Five Facts Everyone Should Know About Poverty
A report from the California Budget Project, highlights the potential for public policies to significantly reduce poverty and connect low-income families with economic opportunity.
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Beyond Recovery: Making the State’s Economy Work Better for Low-and Mid-Wage Californians
A report from the California Budget Project, examines California’s economy and key trends in employment and earnings.
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Changes in Areas With Concentrated Poverty: 2000 to 2010
A report from the U.S. Census Bureau, examines poverty trends in each state and nationwide.
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WORKFORCE
California’s Health Workforce Needs: Training Allied Workers
A report from the Public Policy Institute of California, examines whether California’s health care workforce is prepared to deal with an aging population.
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California’s Need for Skilled Workers
A report from the Public Policy Institute of California, examines labor market outcomes among workers with some college training to shed light on the types of jobs that hold the most promise for future workers and the state economy.
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OTHER
Latino Voices: The Impacts of Crime and Criminal Justice Policies on Latinos
A report from Californians for Safety and Justice, spotlights the latest research on Latinos’ experiences in the justice system.
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Proposition 47: Should California Reduce Penalties for Drug and Property Crimes and Invest in Treatment?
A report from the California Budget Project, looks at Proposition 47 and discusses its potential impact on public safety, community health, and California’s criminal justice system.
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Four Infographics on Health Disparities and Equity
A resource from the University of California, San Francisco, Health Equity Institute, discusses health inequity and the social, environmental and behavioral behaviors that cause different health outcomes.
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Open Data Portal
A resource from the California Department of Public Health, provides data related to key public health indicators including California demographics, our environment, population statistics, and more.
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Beyond Confrontation: Community-Centered Policing Tools
A resource from Advancement Project and PolicyLink, focuses on improving the relationships between police and communities of color across the country.
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Kids Count Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being
A report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, examines the demographic, social, and economic factors affecting children in each state.
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Causes Count: The Economic Power of California’s Nonprofit Sector
A report from CalNonprofits, examines the scope, activities, and economic impact of the nonprofit sector in California.
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A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Orange County
A report from Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Orange County and the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, identifies those most in need by providing the latest data on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
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