1. RECRUIT WITH A RACIAL EQUITY FRAMEWORK: Apply a racial equity lens to recruit contact tracers from highly impacted communities. Pay a living wage. Include residents, trusted workers, and leaders in governance and advisory groups
2. LAUNCH A COMMUNITY-BASED JOBS PROGRAM: Leverage existing and expected federal funds to engage unemployed or dislocated workers with living wage jobs that meet contact tracing and other community needs.
3. INVEST IN TRUSTED WORKERS, INCLUDING CHWS Response & recovery will move at the speed of trust. Pay and expand the authority of trusted, trained community health workers & promotores to support and join contact tracers 
4. EMBED JOB TRAINING & PIPELINES TO LOCAL CAREERS: Engage nonprofit workforce training partners to address basic skills gaps and create a pipeline to careers in local health departments, community-based organizations, and local businesses.
5. STRENGTHEN CONNECTIONS WITH PSYCHOSOCIAL SERVICES: Use social vulnerability data and proven tools to identify household psychosocial needs among isolated and quarantined contacts and to connect them to community resources.
6. STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE & FINANCING:  Braid funds to sustain essential nonprofits and invest in outcomes funds, wellness trusts, and other place-based payment models that align with long-term community health outcomes.

LEARN MORE AT HEALTH BEGINS

​​​The Health Homes Program (HHP) is desi​gned to serve eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries with complex medical needs and chronic conditions who may benefit from enhanced ​care managem​ent and coordination. The HHP coordinates the full range of physical health, behavioral health, and community-based long-term services and supports (LTSS) needed by eligible beneficiaries.​

The HHP provides six core services:

1. Comprehensive care management
2. Care coordination (physical health, behavioral health, community-based LTSS)
3. Health promotion
4. Comprehensive transitional care
5. Individual and family support
6. Referral to community and social support services, including housing

Contact Us

We value your input. Please email any HHP questions, comments, or concerns to: HHP@dhcs.ca.gov

• HHP Program Guide (11/1/19)
  
• HHP Implementation Schedule
  
• HHP Impleme​ntation Update​ (September 2020)
  
• ​HHP Implementation Update (November 2019)​
  
• HHP Program Overview Slide Deck
• ​HHP Final UCLA Evaluation Design
  
• Aurrera Health Group - California's Health Homes Program: Lessons Learned and Promising Practices (February 2020)​
  
• HHP Member Success Stories by Aurrera Health Group September 2020 (not DHCS)​​
  
• HHP Member Success Stories by Aurrera Health Group February 2021 (not DHCS)​
  
• UCLA First Interim Evaluation of California's Health Homes Program (not DHCS)
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• Health Homes Program Funding Summary
• State Plan Amendment (16-007)
• Medi-Cal 2020 1115 Waiver Amendment (12/19/17)
• Assembly Bill 361 / Senate Bill 361
• Affordable Care Act Section 2703
  
  

• HHP Member T​oolkit (English)
• HHP Member Toolkit (Spanish) 
• HHP Provider Guide (2019)
• Information for MCPs, CB-CMEs, CBOs
  
• Fact Sheets for Members​
  
• ​HHP Outreach Toolkit (not DHCS)​​​​
  

• ​Trainings for Health Homes Program Staff

Resource Portfolio:

• Adolescent Health
• Agricultural Worker Health
• Archived Materials
• Clinical Care Teams
• Diabetes
• Elder Health
• Emergency Preparedness
• General Health Topics
• Grant Writing
• Group Activities
• Healthy Relationships
• Hypertension
• Language Accessibility
• Maternal and Child Health
• Materiales en Español
• Mental Health Resources
• Program Design
• Recruiting and Hiring
• Return on Investment
• Social Determinants of Health
• Supervision and Management
• Workforce Development

City Of Philadelphia  DBHIDS: Peer Support Toolkit

• Module 1: Preparing the Organizational Culture
• Module 2: Recruiting and Hiring Peer Staff
• Module 3: Service Delivery
• Module 4: Supervision and Retention

The interactive PDF format allows easy navigation among sections of the toolkit. The toolkit performs best when the PDF is downloaded to your device and opened in Adobe. 

To download the PCCI Peer Support Toolkit (275 pages)

To learn more about the Peer Support Toolkit, be sure to take advantage of a quick tutorial in this YouTube video.