Articles & Publications

Evidence-based practice implementation: The impact of public versus private sector organization type on organizational support, provider attitudes, and adoption of evidence-based practice

The goal of this study is to extend research on evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation by examining the impact of organizational type (public versus private) and organizational support for EBP on provider attitudes toward EBP and EBP use. Both organization theory and theory of innovation uptake and individual adoption of EBP guide the approach and analyses

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Growing What Works: Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania’s Nurse-Family Partnership Initiative

This study shows that the replication of evidence-based models can be an enormous challenge, even for highly defined and effective programs. Replication across many sites, and by a common funder, is labor-intensive and comes with expectations of outcomes similar to those achieved in research trials. Ensuring fidelity to the established program model, while allowing for

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Laying a Solid Foundation: Strategies for Effective Program Replication

This publication is a guide for policymakers, practitioners and philanthropists interested in a systematic approach to program replication. It lays out key structures that should be in place before wide-scale replication is considered, the steps needed to ensure success, and details on when to replicate, where the replication should take place, and staff resources needed.

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Foundations & Public Policy Leveraging Philanthropic Dollars, Knowledge, and Networks for Greater Impact

The book intends to answer three fundamental questions: What are the factors that are critical to a foundation’s decision to engage in public policy work? What are the strategic and tactical options available to a foundation that becomes involved in public policymaking? What are the implications for a foundation that chooses to leverage its philanthropic

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Applying Diffusion of Innovation Theory to Intervention Development

The paper reviews the diffusion theory and focuses on seven concepts—intervention attributes, intervention clusters, demonstration projects, societal sectors, reinforcing contextual conditions, opinion leadership, and intervention adaptation—with potential for accelerating the spread of evidence-based practices, programs, and policies in the field of social work.

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