Using Collaborative Coalition Processes to Advance Community Health, Well-Being, and Equity: A Multiple–Case Study Analysis From a National Community Transformation Initiative:

Spreading Community Accelerators Through Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation–funded initiative from 2015 to 2017 to build capability of 24 community coalitions to advance health, well-being, and equity. The SCALE theoryof changehad three components: develop leadership capability, build relationships within and between communities, and create an intercommunity system to spread promising ideas. The theory was operationalized through training academies, coaching, and peer-to- peer learningthat explicitly addressed equity and systems change. In this article, we describe how SCALE facilitated communitytransformation related to Collaborating for Equity and Justice Principles 1, 3, 4, and 6. We conducted a multiple–case study approach with two community coalitions including site visits, interviews, and observation to illuminate underlying mechanisms of change by exploring how and why change occurs. Skid Row Women worked with women experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles to ad...