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Measure Stewardship and Engagement for Improving Social-Emotional Health Metrics and Services in Rural Communities

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CURRENT PROJECT

OPIP has received funding from the Ford Family Foundation from May 2024-April 2026 to support a number of efforts focused on improving health care-based social-emotional services for young children. The work specifically focuses on young children that are insured in Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) which cover two in five children in Oregon overall, with even higher rates in rural counties.  Below is a high-level summary of the three main tracks of activities OPIP will be leading.

#1: Measure stewardship of the system-level/ child-level issue-focused social emotional health metrics. 

  • Monthly addressing questions about the metrics.
  • Quarterly meetings with Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and other identified OHA workgroups.
  • Annually providing the metric specifications & adjustments.
  • Support a parent advisory community and/or advocacy organizations.

# 2: Engagement of rural communities on efforts that can be implemented aligned with the metric aimed at improving access and quality of services for young children.

  • Development of summary materials about the intent of the child-level metric; lead a series of webinars, with targeted outreach to rural communities.
  • Webinars for communities on ways that child-level social-emotional services can be improved, with specific spotlights included in rural regions. Targeted outreach to rural communities.
  • Meeting quarterly with the Children’s Institute (CI) on the policy-level implications including a specific focus on rural communities.
  • Up to three trainings of primary care staff in rural regions on child-level social emotional services and strategies to enhance provision. 

#3: Development and implementation of a communication strategy around improvements needed in the systems assessed by the metric. 

  • Development of a communication strategy, including visual graphics, explaining the child-level metric and improvements needed. The communication strategy will be targeted to rural regions.

Resource for Coordinated Care Organizations:

OPIP hosted a webinar on February 20th, 2025, about the new 2025 Coordinated Care Organization Incentive Metric Focused on Young Children Receiving Social-Emotional Issue-Focused Intervention/Treatment Services.

If you are interested in watching the webinar recording, please use the link below to register:

After you register, we will send you the slides and materials from this webinar via email.

Recommended Pre-Reading Prior to Watching the Webinar:

  1. OPIP feels strongly that attendees should first listen to the public comments obtained from parents with lived experience and frontline providers about why this metric and a focus on this population is needed: Listen Here
  2. OPIP strongly recommends that attendees review the materials linked below BEFORE the watching the webinar in order to establish a baseline knowledge about the metric and metric specifications.

Overview of Funder:
This work is supported by The Ford Family Foundation. The Ford Family Foundation was established in 1957 by Kenneth W. and Hallie E. Ford. Its mission is “successful citizens and vital rural communities” in Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. The Foundation is located in Roseburg, Oregon, with a Scholarship office in Eugene.