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Allison Metz, Ph.D., Scientist, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents traditional approaches to disseminating evidence-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 presentation provides an overview of the Active Implementation Frameworks (AIF), a science-based implementation framework, and describes a case study in child welfare where the AIF was used to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based and evidence-informed practices to improve the wellbeing of children exiting out of home placement to permanency. This presentation provides descriptive data that suggest AIF is a promising framework for promoting high-fidelity implementation of both evidence-based models and innovations through the development of active implementation teams.
Allison Metz, Ph.D., Scientist, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents traditional approaches to disseminating evidence-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 presentation provides an overview of the Active Implementation Frameworks (AIF), a science-based implementation framework, and describes a case study in child welfare where the AIF was used to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based and evidence-informed practices to improve the wellbeing of children exiting out of home placement to permanency. This presentation provides descriptive data that suggest AIF is a promising framework for promoting high-fidelity implementation of both evidence-based models and innovations through the development of active implementation teams.
