TCI Celebrates One Year of Implementation in Action

In our penultimate bulletin of 2019, we are looking back at some of the key topics described this year in Implementation in Action and how you can use specific frameworks and resources in practice.  

Over the past year, we have seen huge growth in our number of subscribers. In fact, our Implementation in Action  community has grown from 200 to 2200 people in the last 12 months!  A huge thank you to all of you who have spread the word, sent us articles, tools, resources, and shared ideas. For those who are new to our bulletin, we hope you enjoy these new-to-you topics; for those who are Implementation in Action veterans, we hope you find this retrospective beneficial for your own implementation work.  

We also wanted to share that several of the articles featured were selected as a result of people directly emailing us articles they think we and the Implementation in Action audience would enjoy. Please do not hesitate to forward us articles (particularly ones that we likely wouldn’t come across in typical implementation science avenues). We can’t guarantee they will make it into an upcoming bulletin, but we definitely welcome receiving these amazing resources.

If you are looking for implementation resources and ideas, here is a great place to start…

How can you improve your implementation process?

If you are looking do you improve your implementation process, check out these bulletins on:

• How to pick a process model

• How do use the Knowledge to Action

• Active Implementation in a formula for implementation success

How can you enhance your stakeholder interactions in the implementation context?

If you are thinking all about stakeholders, these bulletins are for you:

• Understanding roles in the implementation system

• Co-creating knowledge

• Making implementation locally meaningful and relevant

• Conducting a barriers and facilitators assessment (with limited time and resources)

• Navigating adaptations and fidelity

 Are you trying to support implementation?

These bulletins focus on implementation supports:

• How intermediary organizations support implementation

• Readiness for implementation

• A framework for implementation supports

• Coaching for implementation

Are you struggling with a practical application of frameworks and theories?

We know that applying implementation science frameworks and practice is not always easy, these bulletins really hone in on some of the key challenges we face when using these frameworks in real life:

• How can a process model help you?

• How to pick implementation strategies

• Struggling to use a framework?

• What is your theory of change?

• The practical realities of assessing barriers and facilitators

 Frameworks and Process Models

If you were looking for more information on a specific process model or framework, here is a list of the ones that have been discussed:

• Active implementation - discussed by Dalton Wolfe & Saagar Walia and discussed by Amanda Fixsen and Matthew Billings

• Adaptation-Implementation Framework – discussed by Alexis Kirk

• Interactive Systems Framework (ISF) – discussed by Julia Moore in March and October

• Knowledge to Action (KTA) – discussed by Diana Kaan and Louise Zitzelsberger

• Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARiHS) – discussed by Lisa Lachance

• Quality Implementation Framework (QIF) – discussed by Andrea Chaplin

• Readiness = Motivation x Capacity x Capacity (R = MC2) – discussed by Jonathan Scaccia

• Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) – discussed by Ashleigh Townley