Pear Suite’s AI-enabled platform empowers community health workers (CHWs), community-based organizations (CBOs), and health plans to deliver high-quality care, measure outcomes, and help make care sustainable and scalable. This investment will support Pear Suite in continuing to transform the role of CHWs in the healthcare system, who serve as intermediaries between health plans and Medicaid members, older adults, people with disabilities, and other communities that have historically faced systemic challenges in accessing care.
California Voters on the Master Plan for Aging: A Call for Equity and Investment
We hosted a special webinar and briefing on May 3, 2021 to discuss the latest poll results gauging California voters’ support for the Master Plan for Aging and its core goals.
Advancing Health Equity in Aging: Discovery Project to Build Alliances and The Opportunity to Organize Older Adults
This project will document and visualize the full landscape of organizing actors, categories, and roles of different sectors to organize older adults. It will learn directly from people working in adjacent spaces, including funders, organizers, academics, and older adults themselves, and develop and prioritize ideas for ways to make the most impact.
This analysis examines the potential access impacts on the dual eligible population in each state of three Medicaid policies passed in July 2025 as part of H.R.1 federal legislation: delaying implementation of CMS rules on Medicaid eligibility & enrollment; reducing how states are able to use state-directed payments (SDP) for Medicaid providers; and imposition of work requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibility for certain populations.
With co-funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation, Commonwealth Fund, Peterson Health Care, Arnold Ventures, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Better Care Playbook will continue its efforts to advance promising practices to improve care for adults with complex health and social needs. For health care stakeholders, the content is reliable and evidence-based.
The Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CORE) will conduct a shared power analysis with Equity Community Organization Groups (ECO Groups) to understand the impact of the investment model to support community action and change and to assess the potential for this model to be scaled and spread across California.
CA Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan State Technical Assistance
The Center for Health Care Strategies will provide technical assistance to the California Department of Health Care Services Office of Medicare Innovation and Integration as the state continues to advance their goals to improve care for people dually eligible for Medicare and Medi-Cal.
California Collaborative for Long Term Services and Supports (CCLTSS)
CA Advocacy Network 2024-25
Founded by The SCAN Foundation in 2011, the CCLTSS advances long-term services and supports reform in California by uniting state and county-level organizations to educate policymakers, build consensus on policy solutions, and strengthen advocacy for programs that support older adults and people with disabilities across the state’s system of care.
This grant, with co-funding from West Health and Stanley and May Smith Charitable Trust, the Center for Health Care Strategies(CHCS) will continue to support states in a national movement of Multisector Plans for Aging (MPA). This includes 1) continuing to engage and support 20 MPA Learning Collaborative (LC) states, 2) engaging and supporting seven new states that are just beginning to engage in MPAs, and 3) creating a toolkit and in person workshops for states and stakeholders at all phases of MPA development to learn about developing, implementing, refreshing, and measuring progress in MPAs.
