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Social-emotional health metric: technical assistance

This quality metric asks CCOs to work with their provider networks to identify and connect young children with social emotional health needs to services that help them and their families. In 2022 through 2024, CCOs are doing the following work to better understand needs of young children and providers that care for them:

  1. Social-emotional health reach metric data review and assessment
  2. Asset map of existing social-emotional health services and resources
  3. CCO-led cross-sector community engagement
  4. Action plan to improve social-emotional health service capacity and access

In 2025, the system-level social-emotional health metric will change to a child-level metric as outlined in the 2025 metric specifications. 

Specifications and guidance

Metric data and reporting

See the social-emotional health metric data and reporting page for the following reports:
  • OHA social-emotional health metric reach reports (statewide and CCO-specific)
  • CCO social-emotional health asset map summaries
  • CCO social-emotional health action plans

Technical assistance

The Transformation Center is contracting with OHSU-ORPRN (Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network) to provide technical assistance and support for CCOs in implementing the social-emotional health metric. 

Child-level social emotional health metric: coding and billing

CCOs are invited to two technical assistance opportunities for the child-level social-emotional health metric. CCOs may invite community-based organizations, clinical partners, or other partners involved in social-emotional health.
Contact for accessibility requests: Sara Wild (wilsa@ohsu.edu)   

Past technical assistance

Webinars, learning collaboratives and resources for CCOs and partners:

  • Communications for parents and providers about social-emotional health for children 0–5 years old
  • Understanding the social-emotional health system and making improvements
  • Engaging new social-emotional health partners with the health system (could include billing/coding, community information exchange, using data for community engagement, etc.)