Active Implementation Frameworks for Successful Service Delivery: Catawba County Child Wellbeing Project

Traditional approaches to disseminating research based programs and innovations for children and families, which rely on practitioners and policy makers to make sense of research on their own, have been found insufficient. There is growing interest in strategies that “make it happen” by actively bui...

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Published in:Research on social work practice 2015-07, Vol.25 (4), p.415-422
Main Authors: Metz, Allison, Bartley, Leah, Ball, Heather, Wilson, Dawn, Naoom, Sandra, Redmond, Phil
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case Studies
Child placement
Child Welfare
Children
Competence
Delivery Systems
Families & family life
Family (Sociological Unit)
Family Programs
Foster Care
Information Dissemination
Innovation
Innovations
Intervention
North Carolina
Program Evaluation
Program Implementation
Social Services
Social work
Teamwork
Well Being
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Summary:Traditional approaches to disseminating research based programs and innovations for children and families, which rely on practitioners and policy makers to make sense of research on their own, have been found insufficient. There is growing interest in strategies that “make it happen” by actively building the capacity of service providers to implement innovations with high fidelity and good effect. This article provides an overview of the Active Implementation Frameworks (AIFs), a science-based implementation framework, and describes a case study in child welfare, where the AIF was used to facilitate the implementation of research-based and research-informed practices to improve the well-being of children exiting out of home placement to permanency. In this article, we provide descriptive data that suggest AIF is a promising framework for promoting high-fidelity implementation of both research-based models and innovations through the development of active implementation teams.
ISSN:1049-7315
1552-7581
DOI:10.1177/1049731514543667