Department of Health and Human Services: ECCS CoIIN CC Grant Program

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[1] Collaborative Innovation and Improvement Network (CoIIN) – a group of self-motivated people (or organizations) with a collective vision, enabled by the Web to collaborate in achieving a common goal by sharing ideas, information, and work[1]. The CoIIN provides a platform for collaborative learning and quality improvement toward common goals and benchmarks using rapid cycles of change. Key features include collaborative learning, identification of common benchmarks, implementation of coordinated strategies, and rapid tests of change, and the use of real-time data to drive real-time improvement.

[2] Children’s developmental health – for the purposes of this FOA, children’s developmental health includes developmental health surveillance, screening, referral, if necessary, and follow up to ensure linkages and early intervention services for children birth through kindergarten entry.

[3] Family well-being – for the purposes of this FOA, family well-being includes the prevention, screening, referral and follow-up of services related to maternal depression and trauma-informed care.

[4] Cohort – a group of place-based communities, selected by the ECCS Impact grantees, that participate in CoIIN improvement cycles.

[5] Place-based community – social unit of any size that shares common values and bound together because of where they reside, work, visit or otherwise spend a continuous portion of their time.  Work around place-based communities in this funding opportunity centers around intentional efforts to build, sustain and operationalize community capacity in improving systems around children’s developmental health and family well-being.

[6] Collective impact — organizations from different sectors agree to solve a specific social problem using a common agenda, aligning their efforts, and using common measures of success. http://www.fsg.org/approach-areas/collective-impact.