PAST PROJECT
The Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership (OPIP), in collaboration with the Children’s Institute (CI), led the development of the System-Level Social-Emotional Health Metric.
The metric was included in the Coordinated Care Organization Incentive Metric Set from 2022-2024 and was a Challenge Pool metric in 2023.
OPIP served as the measure steward for the System-Level Metric from 2022-2024.

1) OPIP & Children’s Institute led an Educational Webinar about the System-Level Metric, providing an overview of the extensive community and parent-level engagement that informed its development.
- Click here to view these slides.
- Click here to watch the webinar.
2) The System-Level Metric includes four components:

The specifications for the 2024 System-Level Social-Emotional Metric are located: Here
- OPIP conducted several webinars on Component 1 of the Metric, which is on the Social-Emotional Health Reach Metric. Click here to view those webinars.
3) To read an article about this Metric please click here.
4) The Metric received overwhelming support from frontline providers, early learning providers, and parents of young children.
- Robust public testimony was provided to the Metrics and Scoring Committee on the System-Level Social-Emotional Health Metric.
- The volume of public comments in support of the Metric- especially from people represented in these systems- was unprecedented compared to previous metrics.
- Over the course of eight months and three committee meetings (November 2020, May 2021, and June 2021):
- Oral Testimony: 14 public comments from CCOs, system-level leaders, front-line providers, and advocacy organizations.
- Written Testimony: 9 letters of support representing the perspectives of CCOs, health councils, community-based organizations, specialty behavioral health providers, integrated behavioral health providers, and primary care providers.
- Over the course of eight months and three committee meetings (November 2020, May 2021, and June 2021):
In 2025, the System-Level Social-Emotional Metric was replaced by the Child-Level Metric on Issue-Focused Interventions/Treatments Addressing Young Children’s Social-Emotional Health, which was also developed by the Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership.