Practice Profiles Lesson

This learning lesson about Practice Profiles is part of the Active Implementation Hub (AI Hub), a free online learning environment for use by any stakeholder — practitioners, educators, coaches, trainers, purveyors — involved in active implementation and scaling up of programs and innovations.  It includes an overview, tools, and examples. The AI Hub is developed and maintained by the State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center (SISEP) and the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN).

Practice profiles are a tool to help drill down an overall concept (e.g., effective communication) into the specific skills and activities that are essential for a program’s core components to be in place.  Having a foundational understanding of the purpose, benefits, and criteria of practice profiles helps for applying them in practice. Different examples can help to illustrate how programs are differentiating among ideal, acceptable, developmental, and unacceptable variations of the program’s essential components, which are important for training, coaching, and using data that support implementing a program as intended.