COLUMNS: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
State Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice for Youths, Part II: Recommendations for Research and Policy

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DIMENSIONS OF STATE EBP IMPLEMENTATION EFFORT

To date, we have identified six primary dimensions in which EBP implementation support varies in states. These include the impetus for EBP efforts, fiscal drivers, the locus of the effort(s), training infrastructure, evaluation model, and conceptual model. Unlike the models presented in part 1 of this column,1 these dimensions do not constitute a model for promoting successful public policy, but rather are the result of an inductive process to develop a scheme for characterizing the different

Recommendations for States

The Child and Family Evidence-Based Practices Consortium has been meeting regularly since 2004 to share ideas about state-level EBP implementation challenges and strategies. Regardless of the specific approaches adopted, states involved in the Consortium have identified a consistent set of recommendations. By far the most frequently voiced recommendation from member states is to phase in slowly and take time to build relationships with a diverse array of stakeholders before rolling out any EBP

CONCLUSIONS

Use of EBP to treat mental health problems in children and adolescents has hardly been a panacea. Implementation issues continue to confound providers and policymakers alike, and the evidence base itself continues to be at an extremely preliminary stage.10 Nonetheless, the focus on EBP has generated optimism18 and provided clinicians with a useful heuristic with which to resolve specific questions.19

At the state policy level, it may be true that the evidence does not (yet) answer questions

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The authors thank all of the members of the Child and Family Evidence-Based Practice Consortium for their help with this column. They also thank Erik Janson, Research Coordinator, for assisting in literature review and manuscript preparation.

Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

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