A Review of TCI Implementation in Action Bulletins

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We’ve covered many topics in our Implementation in Action bulletin since releasing our first issue in 2018. As we close 2022, we thought it would be a great time to look back and highlight some past issues that you might find helpful. We’ve grouped them around our implementation pathways and other relevant topics. Check out what we’ve compiled below.

Relational Pathway: The role of relationships in implementation

• Considering the role of relationships in implementation: The Relational Pathway

• Trust in collaborative implementation efforts

• Cultivating Trust: The Trust Trifecta Framework

• The importance of power dynamics in supporting implementation

• The role of power in implementation: Exploring spaces of power

• Featured Resource: powercube.net

• Partnering for implementation: the need to place partnering more centrally in our implementation planning and evaluation efforts

• Motivating others: soft skills needed to lead and support implementation initiatives

Equity

• Equitable implementation: Weaving equity into selecting change strategies

• Featured Resource: Data Equity Framework and We All Count tools

• Reflections on equity and justice in implementation science and practice

• Reflections on equitable implementation in communities

StrategEase Pathway

• Supporting Changemakers: The StrategEase Tool

• Featured Resource: StrategEase - A free tool for changemakers

• The StrategEase Pathway: A roadmap for designing interventions for implementation

• Defining your intervention: the WHAT, WHO and HOW

• Five practical tips for collecting individual and organizational barriers and facilitators

• Featured Resource: RE-AIM.org Website

• Do barriers and facilitators assessments have to be resource-intensive?

• 5 practical tips for mapping barriers and facilitators to an implementation framework

• Do you have a process in place to pick implementation strategies?

• Featured resource: The Knowledge to Action (KTA) Model in Health Canada’s Strategic Policy Grants and Contributions Programs

• Where are you in the implementation planning process?

• Featured resource: Implementation mapping

ISS Pathway/ Context

• The Implementation, Spread, and Scale Pathway

• Do you know your role in the implementation system?

• A path forward: using process models to apply implementation science

• Why organizational readiness for change matters

• Featured tool: Readiness Thinking Tool

• Measuring context: balancing implementation research and practice

• Featured resource: Atlas Context Assessment Surveys

• Adaptation? Fidelity? Let’s come up with a real solution for practical implementation

• Featured framework: The Model for Adaptation Design and Impact (MADI)

• Reframing adaptations in a post-pandemic world: Building a roadmap for implementation support practitioners

• Solutions for sustainability planning: Tools, tips, and future directions for implementers and implementation scientists

• Featured tool: Long term success tool to plan for sustainability

Integrating implementation science and other disciplines: systems thinking, quality improvement, human-centered design, and more

• Adopting systems thinking into your implementation science and implementation practice efforts

• Using systems science approaches in practical implementation

• Featured resource: Net-Map

• How do we make systems “ready” to implement?

• How individuals can drive system change

• 5 ways to improve Implementation Science - lessons from quality improvement

• Featured resource: An implementation guide that integrates quality improvement and implementation science

• Working collaboratively with quality improvement and implementation science/ practice approaches

• Can we enhance how we apply implementation science by embedding human centered design principles?

• Featured resource: The Leading Change Toolkit

• Featured resource: untools.co

• Featured resource: Behavioral Evidence Hub Website (bhub.org)

• Featured resource: Dissemination & Implementation Models Webtool

Implementation support practitioners

• Building implementation infrastructure: the role of implementation support practitioners

• Changing the implementation landscape: How to build a cadre of implementation support practitioners

• What to do if you are an implementer trying to convince your team to apply implementation science

• Looking inwards: Reflections on the role of intermediary organizations and implementation coaches

• Reflections on training people in implementation science

• Embedding implementation science into the way intermediaries and evaluators work

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