Issues in disseminating and replicating effective prevention programs.
The new frontier for prevention research involves building a scientific knowledge base on how to disseminate and implement effective prevention programs with fidelity. Toward this end, a brief overview of findings from the Blueprints for Violence Prevention-Replication Initiative is presented, identifying factors that enhance or impede a successful implementation of these programs. Findings are organized around five implementation tasks: site selection, training, technical assistance, fidelity, and sustainability. Overall, careful attention to each of these tasks, together with an independent monitoring of fidelity, produced a successful implementation with high fidelity and sustainability. A discussion of how these findings inform the present local adaptation-fidelity debate follows.
Elliott
Delbert S
DS
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder 80303, USA. delbert.elliott@colorado.edu
Mihalic
Sharon
S
D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States