Coaching Toolkit for Child Welfare

184 The Coaching Toolkit for Child Welfare Practice

Key Terms

Implementation science: is the study of the process of
implementing evidence-based programs and practices (Fixsen,

Naoom, Blasé, Friedman, & Wallace, 2005).

The courses of action through which an idea, decision, rule,

procedure, program or practice are put into use with the process

consists of three core components: (1) Science, (2) Implementation

and (3) Practice (Fixsen, et al., 2005).

Diffusion: the passive spread of innovation in an organization

Dissemination: active and planned efforts to specific groups in

order to adopt innovation

Implementation: actions and efforts undertaken to spread

innovation within an organization

Greenhalgh (2001) identified three strategies to incorporating

organizational change. The most effective organizations do not leave

implementation to chance; rather they strategize ways to

successfully “make it happen.”

1. (^) Letting it happen suggests little time or intention is spent in
   creating an implementation plan. Implementation of a new
   program or practice is left up to each individual practitioner.