A new metric developed by the Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership at OHSU will promote social-emotional health in young children by incentivizing Coordinated Care Organizations to provide behavioral health services and document health improvements. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Colleen Reuland, M.S., is director of OPIP at OHSU and an instructor in pediatrics in the OHSU School of Medicine. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Colleen Reuland, M.S., right, and Lydia Chiang, M.D., both of Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership at OHSU, discuss the new metric developed by OPIP to measure and incentivize social-emotional health treatments for young children — birth to 5 years old — from clinicians contracted with Coordinated Care Organizations. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

From left: Vienna Cordova, OPIP Projects Coordinator; Colleen Reuland, M.S., director of OPIP at OHSU and an instructor in pediatrics in the OHSU School of Medicine; and Reece Jose, Sr. research assistant. A new metric developed by the Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership at OHSU will promote social-emotional health in young children by incentivizing Coordinated Care Organizations to provide behavioral health services and document health improvements. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

From left: Vienna Cordova, OPIP Projects Coordinator; Colleen Reuland, M.S., director of OPIP at OHSU and an instructor in pediatrics in the OHSU School of Medicine; and Reece Jose, Sr. research assistant. A new metric developed by the Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership at OHSU will promote social-emotional health in young children by incentivizing Coordinated Care Organizations to provide behavioral health services and document health improvements. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)