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“Questions asked with the aim of improving implementation are … variants of ‘what works, compared with what, how well, with what exposure, with what behaviours (for how long), for whom, in what setting and why?’ Relevant evidence is being published at a high rate, but its quantity, complexity and lack of shared terminologies present challenges.”” (Michie and Johnston, 2017)

In 2014, the Multisystemic Therapy® Services Quality Improvement Council identified particular teams whose outcomes were consistently sub-par. The MST Services (MSTS) data system not only supports programs that implement MST® but also uses the data to improve itself.

The work of successful implementation to achieve desired change takes knowledge, skills, professional courage, and personal commitment. This work is not for the naïve or faint of heart.” (Van Dyke and Naoom, 2015).

This session will share lessons learned, data, tools and resources from 15 years of implementation and scale-up of evidence-based models and evidence-informed service delivery in the United States, the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland to improve outcomes for children and families.

Research on policy implementation emerged from the insight that political intentions seldom resulted in the planned changes, which encouraged researchers to investigate what occurred in the process and how it affected the results” (Nilsen, Ståhl, Roback, Cairney, 2013).

This session will be jointly conducted by two teams from a high-income and a low-middle-income setting.

The value of efficiently and rapidly spreading the ‘golden thread’ of readily United States of Americable and clinically salient information that drives treatment and decision-making throughout an organization cannot be understated” (Douglas, Button, Casey, 2016).