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Helping it happen incorporates research findings into toolkits
or materials designed for practitioners.
(^) Making it happen involves implementation teams directly
helping practitioners effectively implement programs.
The information provided throughout this toolkit aims to provide
agency leadership with a plan for making it happen.
Implementation Drivers
As discussed in Chapter 3: Framework and Foundation, Fixsen and
colleagues (2005) describe the core implementation drivers or
components which are further categorized by competency and
organization drivers. These drivers are independent of each other
but are interactive by nature, which means they compensate for one
another; strengths in one component can overwhelm a weakness in
another one.
Competency drivers
These drivers describe how an organization develops, improves, and
sustains implementation with fidelity that benefits consumers or
service recipients.
Selection includes the assemblage of practitioners and organization
staff (trainers, coaches, evaluators, administrators).