Resources & Tools

An implementation plan is a planning tool used to document key aspects guiding a change effort, including implementation goals, strategies used, person(s) responsible, and timeline. Depending on the needs of a team or project, implementation plans may also include additional details such as resources needed, anticipated barriers or facilitators to implementation, anticipated adaptive challenges, or measures of progress (data). Ideally, implementation plans document the work to be done so that everyone is clearly aware of the scope, roles, responsibilities, data monitoring, communications, time frames, team structures, and related aspects.

Quality Outcome and Monitoring Systems are systems put in place to help teams decide what data is needed, when and how to best obtain it, and in what ways it can be put to good use. Reflect on the questions below and document your answers individually or as an implementation team to draw out the story your data is currently telling and how you can adapt your implementation efforts to tell a different story.

A Give-Get Partnership agreement is to outline the shared goals or outcomes of a collaboration, how the partners will work collaboratively, and what each partner is providing and receiving in return. The give and get statements for each partner are clearly and concisely stated in plain language, are succinct, and are digestible. The goal of the agreement is to be a “living document” and one that can be revisited when questions or barriers arise around partnership, as well as be revised when needed. The Give-Get Partnership agreement is constructed with input from both partners and identified critical perspectives to the partnership for capacity building purposes.

Implementation Teams use Working Agreements to provide clarity about the work of the team, help the team stay ‘on mission’ and orient new members. Use this activity with your team to organize and articulate Working Agreements.

Implementation Teams use charters to establish clarity about the team’s purpose and team member’s roles, responsibilities and goals. Charters are also used to create norms and processes for the team’s way of work, outline communication plans with stakeholders and orient new team members. A team can use this template to guide the creation of their own charter by responding to the question prompts in the first column. A sample charter is included as a reference.

This resource is a helpful tool to provide some guidance as you begin to walk through the process of defining and documenting your plans for communication. While the template, has a systems change focus, many of the prompts remain applicable for inter-agency and other smaller scale communication planning.

When implementing an evidence-based program, policy, or practice, assessing and strengthening key capacity areas is required to create an optimal support system for the selected program to be delivered as intended. Capacity is defined as the resources and abilities required to implement and sustain a change effort. In this video, we will focus on one of these key capacity areas, called Workforce Development Systems.

In this video, we’ll explore 5 key capacity areas that help create the essential infrastructure for the desired change to occur. Capacity includes the technical resour1ces needed for a new practice, such as funding or materials, or the skills and knowledge to deliver the practice well. It also encompasses the leadership, team, and organizational processes and policies that create an enabling environment for change.

This quick start guide offers six tips to help guide the development and implementation of successful workforce development proposals year after year.

This microlearning video is designed to introduce individuals and teams to the four steps of the root cause analysis process. An overview of each step is provided.

In this microlearning, viewers will be introduced to implementation teams' composition, core functions, and tools to support healthy teaming behaviors. Below are links to the tools referenced in the video.

This resource from the Public Health Agency of Sweden features a checklist to provide practical support for implementation. The checklist is comprised of four initial key questions on need, intervention, knowledge support, and place of implementation, followed by additional guiding questions spanning four phases and 14 steps.

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This worksheet will help guide teams to examine how chosen solutions (or strategies) impact root causes. It is critical to understand if chosen solutions are (a) usable, and (b) making expected improvements.

Step 3 of the RCA series will guide exploring effective solutions to address the root cause(s) identified in earlier steps of the root cause analysis process. Strive to center equity within your solution-finding efforts. Youth, parents, and community members most impacted by the problem are also the most knowledgeable about potential solutions.