A knowledge bank for Implementation
Welcome to the Collaborative
The field of implementation science requires research and innovative practice. The Collaborative for Implementation Practice uses a relationship focused approach to advance the field with our partners. Let’s collaborate.
Our purpose is to advance the field of implementation science, with you
The Collaborative for Implementation Practice (CIP) is an initiative at the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. CIP is a community of individuals focused on using and developing evidence on implementation practice to advance the field of implementation science and equitable outcomes. CIP provides implementation support and serves as a knowledge bank, resource library, and source for innovation for the workforce.
Collaboration
We strive to include all of those who are involved in or will be impacted by the work.
Relationships
We consider trust and empathy to be foundational for implementation success.
Evidence
We seek to use and develop evidence to guide all aspects of our work.
Equity
We center equity in knowledge development and use.
Our Principles
to approaching Implementation
Be empathetic
Approach the change facilitation process with regard for others as legitimate, respected, and valuable contributors to the selection and implementation of a program or practice and associated processes and outcomes. Seek mutual understanding within relationships, and understand how growth-promoting relationships between implementation support practitioners and stakeholders can fuel implementation support.
Be curious
Ask questions, demonstrate authentic interest in how local stakeholders and context will shape implementation processes; engage with different forms of evidence and information across relevant content areas and disciplines; tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity while seeking clarity.
Be committed
Bring patience, resilience, and willingness to challenge the status quo to the process; demonstrate flexibility and agility during implementation setbacks.
Advance equity
Advance equitable implementation by integrating strong equity components, including explicit attention to the languages, cultures, histories, values, assets, and needs of different communities, during all steps of an implementation process.
Use critical thinking
Explore the diverse elements of a situation, examine your own and others’ assumptions, assess context and root causes or contributing factors and make conscious choices, that are informed by evidence and data.
Embrace cross- disciplinary approaches
Appreciate and use different ways of knowing and diversity of expertise across disciplines to bring about mutual and transformative learning.
How the Collaborative
Supports the Field
Build Evidence
CIP serves as a think tank for implementation science by sharing evidence and innovation from both researchers and practitioners in the field.
Grow the Workforce
CIP offers resources and professional development opportunities for all people with a role in supporting implementation.
Advance Equity
CIP works with all communities and embraces the diverse experiences that both drive and shape implementation efforts.
Practice Guides
Assess Contextual Fit and Feasibility
Assessing the fit and feasibility of programs, practices or strategy in a given context is a critical step for ensuring successful implementation.
Practice Guides
Assess Implementation Infrastructure
Implementation drivers are the key infrastructure elements needed to support practice, organizational, and systems change.
Practice Guides
Establish Implementation Teams
An implementation team is a group of stakeholders responsible for overseeing implementation and improvement efforts in order to achieve equitable outcomes.
Practice Guides
Develop Partnership Agreements
Assessing the fit and feasibility of programs, practices or strategy in a given context is a critical step for ensuring successful implementation.
Practice Guides
Use a Stage-based Implementation Approach
Implementation is a process, not an event. Implementation stages are the developmental phases an implementation effort moves through to achieve equitable outcomes.
Practice Guides
Develop an Implementation Plan.
Implementations plans are intended to plan for and guide implementation efforts across the many stages of implementation.
Practice Guides
Use Data to Improve Implementation
Implementation efforts rely on data to guide ongoing improvement.
Practice Guides
Define Program or Practice Elements
Well-defined programs can be taught to and by others, are ready for assessment and evaluation — key ingredients for expansion and scale — and are much more likely to deliver on their promised outcomes when they are implemented, adapted or replicated.
Practice Guides
Plan for Sustainability
Ongoing sustainability planning and improvement can promote the integration of the program or practice in organizational and staff routines and habits and also help to identify or anticipate potential implementation barriers.
Practice Guides
Assess Contextual Fit and Feasibility
Assessing the fit and feasibility of programs, practices or strategy in a given context is a critical step for ensuring successful implementation.
Practice Guides
Assess Implementation Infrastructure
Implementation drivers are the key infrastructure elements needed to support practice, organizational, and systems change.
Practice Guides
Establish Implementation Teams
An implementation team is a group of stakeholders responsible for overseeing implementation and improvement efforts in order to achieve equitable outcomes.
Practice Guides
Develop Partnership Agreements
Assessing the fit and feasibility of programs, practices or strategy in a given context is a critical step for ensuring successful implementation.
Practice Guides
Use a Stage-based Implementation Approach
Implementation is a process, not an event. Implementation stages are the developmental phases an implementation effort moves through to achieve equitable outcomes.
Practice Guides
Develop an Implementation Plan.
Implementations plans are intended to plan for and guide implementation efforts across the many stages of implementation.
Practice Guides
Use Data to Improve Implementation
Implementation efforts rely on data to guide ongoing improvement.
Practice Guides
Define Program or Practice Elements
Well-defined programs can be taught to and by others, are ready for assessment and evaluation — key ingredients for expansion and scale — and are much more likely to deliver on their promised outcomes when they are implemented, adapted or replicated.
Practice Guides
Plan for Sustainability
Ongoing sustainability planning and improvement can promote the integration of the program or practice in organizational and staff routines and habits and also help to identify or anticipate potential implementation barriers.
I have always thought what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.
-Ella Baker
