STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
By aligning community and institutional resources and expertise around shared goals that invert the burden, ARCHI partners are improving the region’s health and confronting existing health equity challenges. ARCHI’s work to invert the burden is data-driven, health-focused, and people-centered. In collaboration with our partners, ARCHI is creating meaningful change in metro Atlanta. Learn more about ARCHI’s strategic initiatives that support this change in the health care landscape.
COMMUNITY RESOURCE HUBS
A real-time, rapid referral network with data sharing among clinical providers and community-based social services to address the social determinants that negatively impact health among the most vulnerable patients, while addressing the underlying systemic root causes of poor health outcomes.
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER (CHW) INITIATIVES
Efforts, including an annual forum hosted in partnership with the Georgia Department of Public Health, train, educate, energize, and deploy the CHW workforce across the state. A groundbreaking initiative to train, educate, energize, and deploy the CHW workforce across the state, including an annual forum hosted in partnership with the Georgia Department of Public Health. Programming is centered on the role of CHWs in supporting patients with chronic conditions, reducing barriers to care, and providing education and access to crucial social and medical resources.
EQUITY STORIES
A forum for stakeholders in Atlanta’s system of support and services to engage in deep listening to better understand the lived experience of those encountering inequitable policies and practices in Atlanta, to share recommendations, and to identify personal and organization actions based on what they learned.
HEALTH-HOUSING COLLABORATIVE
An opportunity for metro Atlanta health care systems to share best practices related to the interaction of housing and health care and explore the potential impact of investments in affordable housing projects.
MEDICAL DEBT RESEARCH
A partnership with nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to explore perceptions of medical debt and its causes, steps Atlantans have taken to resolve the debt, interactions with providers and collections agencies, and what it would mean to have debt abolished.
THRIVE BY 25
Amplification of United Way of Greater Atlanta’s strategies for investing in the well-being and success of young people ages 14 through 24 years by engaging young people, educators, employers, and other partners.
COORDINATED SERVICES
Collaboration of partners across the social service sector to address systemic barriers that prevent clients from accessing much-needed services.
METRO ATLANTA CITIES WELLBEING INITIATIVE
Aims to build city leaders’ capacity to use existing wellbeing metrics and indices to improve quality of life in their communities.
ARCHI IN ACTION
ARCHI was founded by individuals and organizations committed to upstream, cross-sector work. We use a cutting edge dynamic systems model that helps stakeholders determine the interventions that will create the greatest benefit at the lowest cost.