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From Innovation to Impact at Scale: Lessons Learned From a Cluster of Research–Community Partnerships
Author(s) -
Schindler Holly S.,
Fisher Philip A.,
Shonkoff Jack P.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/cdev.12904
Subject(s) - coaching , psychology , psychological intervention , intervention (counseling) , scale (ratio) , process (computing) , suite , disadvantage , socioeconomic status , knowledge management , applied psychology , computer science , sociology , political science , psychotherapist , operating system , population , physics , demography , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , law
This article presents a description of how an interdisciplinary network of academic researchers, community‐based programs, parents, and state agencies have joined together to design, test, and scale a suite of innovative intervention strategies rooted in new knowledge about the biology of adversity. Through a process of cocreation, collective pilot testing, and the support of a measurement and evaluation hub, the Washington Innovation Cluster is using rapid cycle iterative learning to elucidate differential impacts of interventions designed to build child and caregiver capacities and address the developmental consequences of socioeconomic disadvantage. Key characteristics of the Innovation Cluster model are described and an example is presented of a video‐coaching intervention that has been implemented, adapted, and evaluated through this distinctive collaborative process.