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IMPLEMENTATION OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: A GUIDE FOR RESEARCHERS AND PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS

Presenters: Greg Aarons, Lawrence Palinkas

Abstract Category: Child Welfare

Instruction Level: Beginner

Presentation: Not Provided

Description: 

Participants will learn to identify effective strategies for implementing evidence-based practices for families and children.

Abstract:

While there exist numerous evidence-based practices for service delivery to families and children in need, such practices are rarely implemented in the field.  Rather, clinicians and case-managers often continue to rely upon practices with little evidence of efficacy or effectiveness.  Many evidence-based practices face numerous obstacles when it comes to implementation by agencies and programs that serve families and children. There are also factors that facilitate implementation. 

This workshop will enable researchers and agency/program administrators to recognize these obstacles and facilitators and identify strategies for overcoming them in order to move best practices from effectiveness research to successful implementation and sustainability and to provide the best quality services to their clients. Part One will review some of the current theoretical models guiding the principles and practice of evidence-based practice implementation. 

Part Two will summarize the lessons learned from two ongoing studies of implementation of evidence-based practice, one in a child welfare setting and one in a specialty mental health setting.  Part Three will be an interactive session between workshop organizers and participants to identify barriers and facilitators to EBP implementation specific to their agencies and offer solutions to challenges in current or planned efforts to implement EBPs in agency or program settings.