Selecting and Implementing Evidence-Based Practice

Rosalyn Bertram is a professor at the University of Missoui-Kansas City School of Social Work. She serves as co-director of the Child and Family Evidence Based Practice Consortium, an international collaborative effort of faculty and implementation specialists, program developers and administrators, practitioners, and researchers. Her recent studies include examinations of the extent to which evidence based practices are taught in masters level social work and marriage and family therapy curricula. Her recent grants and technical assistance contracts focus on transformation of MSW curricula, child welfare and behavioral health care service implementation. Suzanne Kerns is a clinical-community psychologist and associate professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. She is the Executive Director of the Center for Effective Interventions. Her research broadly focuses on enhancing the wellbeing of children and families through ensuring access to proven-effective treatment approaches, including examining the acquisition, implementation, adaptation and sustainability of evidence-based practices. She has a particular focus on workforce development. She supports training efforts for providers in mental health and child welfare and has directed a University-based workforce initiative for graduate students in service fields.

Beginning with the End in Mind.- Visiting the Clinic: A Child and Family Tale.- Definitions and Debates.- Misconceptions and Facts.- Workforce Preparation: Academic Curricula and Concerns.- Establishing Effectiveness: An Innovation Tale.- An Explorer's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice.- Implementation Science: Slowing Down to Install a Practice.- Starting Small: Transformation Zones and Initial Implementation.- Trouble-Shooting Implementation Challenges.- Data-Informed Implementation.- Pathways to the Future: A Tale of Two Programs.