Resources & Tools

This visual offers a quick takeaway of possible guiding questions team members may consider during early formation of an implementation or design team.

The "Building a Team: Critical Perspectives to Engage in Your Work" is a visual aid that outlines examples of co-creation partners and perspectives to include when assembling an implementation team.

This handout outlines the definition, components, and purpose of an implementation plan, as well as highlights best practices for individuals and teams to consider as they create their own implementation plans. Links to example templates are included.

This handout highlights the five capacity areas that are built for effective implementation and scale-up of evidenced-based practices, policies, and programs.

One important part of team building is identifying the assets that exist amongst your team members. While some assets may be obvious, others may not be readily apparent, so intentional attention to discovering assets is a worthwhile task. Investing time in gathering this information will support your team in proactively identifying opportunities to collaborate, leveraging shared resources, and disseminating information in service of implementing a new policy, practice, program, or innovation.

In this video you will hear from Dr. Robin Jenkins and Dr. Renee Boothroyd, Principal Investigators and Senior Implementation Specialists with the Impact Center at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, as they discuss how change is supported through implementation science.

This short video provides introductory information about implementation support and how it can help teams move forward with their identified innovation.

This lesson touches on the important role that documenting your agency's implementation efforts plays in sustained practice over time. It includes links to some tools for documentation that the pilot sites found helpful in their work

This practice profile example describes the Colorado Department of Education’s prevention-based framework for Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). It identifies the programs five essential components, then breaks each one down into sub-components that include ideal “gold standard,” acceptable, and unacceptable definitions. This particular practice profile outlines the Family, School, and Community Partnering component (the collaboration of families, schools, and communities as active partners in improving learner, classroom, school, district, and state outcomes).

This lesson revisits some key aspects of readiness that were especially salient during the BBI/Six Core pilot project. It discusses the importance of defined core components and clarity around your "It"

This is a series of 6 self-paced adult learning modules that cover Building Bridges Framework and associated programmatic and implementation strategies.

Created by the Capacity Building Center for States, this resource helps child welfare implementation teams assess readiness for change and implementation and support related planning. Teams can use the tool to assess readiness to address an identified challenge, as well as readiness to implement a new program, practice, or intervention.

Originally created and presented by the Building Bridges Initiative program staff, this PowerPoint Presentation gives an overview of the core features of the Building Bridges Initiative and the Six Core Strategies. It draws attention to shared strategies and the ways in which their principles and/or mission complement one another. Please visit https://buildingbridges4youth.org/ for more information.

This handout on Communication Protocols 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).

The Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool (CSAT) is an online resource for understanding the capacity of a clinical practice (e.g., mental health screening procedures) to be maintained over time. The process of using the tool is broken down into four components that help users to understand, assess, review, and use factors that influence clinical sustainability to develop an action plan to increase the likelihood of doing so. The tool itself includes 35 questions across seven domains of sustainability and takes about 10-15 minutes for an individual or group to complete across a wide variety of clinical practice settings. Upon completion, you can view an automated summary of your results.