Advocacy Publications and Policy Briefs
CSRHA supports policies and efforts that will improve healthcare access and service delivery as well as prevention-oriented health promotion efforts.

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The Rural Health Advocate
The Advocate is quarterly electronic publication of the California State Rural Health Association that contains news and links that are important to providers and consumers of health care in rural California. This publication is made available free as a service to our membership, colleagues and friends.

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The Rural California Fact Sheet
The California State Rural Health Association (CSHRA) has developed a Rural California Fact Sheet with statistics collected from the presentation delivered by Sam Willburn, Chief of the State Office of Rural Health, during the CSRHA 2009 annual conference and other relevant sources. The fact sheet provides rural definitions, population, geography, socioeconomic indicators, health conditions and health insurance utilization information about rural California. CSRHA encourages rural colleagues to utilize the fact sheet to promote awareness of California's rurality and its need for adequate funding.

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The Rural Health Advocate
The Advocate is quarterly electronic publication of the California State Rural Health Association that contains news and links that are important to providers and consumers of health care in rural California. This publication is made available free as a service to our membership, colleagues and friends.

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Capitol Campaign Toolkit and Economic Impact Studies
The result of a two-year capital campaign training program entitled Transforming the Future Health of Rural Communities through Economic Development. The program was designed to build the capital fundraising capacity of rural health organizations through leadership development and strategic planning.

This capital campaign toolkit is a collection of resources and rural-focused advice compiled by the members of the project team to share knowledge and resources that will promote the financial viability and success of rural healthcare organizations throughout California.

The economic impact studies were done to determine the overall impact and influence of four distinct rural health organizations.

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The Rural Kaleidoscope
The Rural Kaleidoscope: A Guide on Promising Practices to Diversify California’s Rural Healthcare Workforce identifies challenges rural health care providers confront in recruiting and retaining health care workers, and promising practices they have developed to address these challenges.

The guide’s goal is to increase awareness of these promising practices and to encourage communication between those who developed them and those who are looking for ways to improve their health care workforce recruitment and retention strategies. The Guide is based on a year-long study of recruitment and retention in California’s rural health care sector. Rural health care providers played a major role in developing the research questions that drove the study and in exploring them in focus groups and interviews.

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The Story of Rural Health
The Story of Rural Health is a video documentary of the crisis of rural health told from the perspective of providers, health professionals, consumers and policy makers. To view the history and filming process go to www.csrha.org/story, or click on the thumbnails below to view selections from the over 40 hours of footage gathered for this project.

Jim Lester, EMT	Dr. Pops	Angel Flight	Kids
Assemblyman Cogdill	Eureka County	Dr. Grumbach

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