From Innovation to Impact at Scale: Lessons Learned From a Cluster of Research-Community Partnerships

Abstract

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.

© 2017 The Authors. Child Development © 2017 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.

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Washington State Innovation Cluster: Research Institutions, Intervention Strategies, and Innovating Sites

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