Implementation support availability

The Board of the Northside Partnership oversees the PFL project. The PFL Development and Implementation Team supports local communities interested in implementing the model by helping communities do the following:

• Explore the model’s suitability for their context
• Develop an implementation plan
• Recruit and train staff
• Adapt the model to local conditions
• Recruit families
• Develop support and supervision structures
• Establish governance and oversight structures
• Assess model fidelity

The team supports ongoing implementation by helping communities address challenges and ensure sustainability.

Please contact the model developer for information on replicating the model in the United States.

INSIGHT was a demonstration project implemented from 2012 to 2017 that was tested using a prospective, randomized controlled trial. The trial was led by researchers from Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State College of Health and Human Development. The information in this profile represents how the model was implemented during the demonstration trial.

Support to implement the model may be available upon request to the model developers.

The Parents as Teachers National Center provides guidance, training, technical assistance, professional development opportunities, and a quality endorsement process for Parents as Teachers affiliates. The Parents as Teachers National Center also advocates at the state and national levels.

Parents as Teachers state and country offices offer affiliates guidance, technical assistance, and implementation support. In addition, these offices provide oversight of the Parents as Teachers affiliates in their state or country.

Technical assistance and implementation support are available to Parents as Teachers affiliates through the Parents as Teachers National Center’s Expansion and Model Implementation department, which includes Parents as Teachers state offices and approved regional technical assistance specialists.

EIP was developed by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Nursing. The model developer and director provided implementation support. EIP was initially implemented as a collaborative demonstration project between the developer and the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, Division of Community Health Services.

No information was available about technical assistance.

NFP is supported by the Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office (NSO), a Denver, Colorado-based national nonprofit organization. The NSO helps states and communities implement and sustain NFP.

NSO nurse consultants provide regular, ongoing coaching and consultation to implementing agencies and nursing supervisors on model fidelity, organizational capacity, organizational culture, nursing practice, nursing management, establishing and retaining caseloads, use of data to improve practice, community linkages and program sustainability, and participation in research.

In addition, the NSO provides technical support in 10 areas: (1) orientation to the model and its implementation and evaluation requirements; (2) community planning; (3) selection of implementation agency or entity; (4) staff recruitment, retention, consulting development, education, and coaching; (5) model implementation; (6) continuous quality improvement; (7) research; (8) evaluation; (9) contracts; and (10) marketing and communication.

The University of Oregon and Northwest Prevention Science Inc. offer training and resources to Family Check-Up providers.

When needed, implementation support is provided by the University of Oregon on an hourly basis to help providers and site administrators address uptake barriers, establish or tailor implementation benchmarks, or identify an optimal implementation plan.

The University of Texas Health Science Center’s Children’s Learning Institute (Children’s Learning Institute) supports implementation of PALS. No state support systems exist.

Ongoing consultation is available from the Children’s Learning Institute.

The University of Texas Health Science Center’s Children’s Learning Institute (Children’s Learning Institute) supports implementation of Play and Learning Strategies (PALS). No state support systems exist.

Triple P was developed by researchers at The University of Queensland’s Parenting and Family Support Centre in Australia. Triple P is licensed under Triple P International Pty Ltd (TPI), based in Brisbane, Australia. TPI publishes Triple P resources, supports implementation, and provides training and accreditation. TPI subsidiary offices operate in many countries. In the United States, Triple P America’s implementation consultants support local and state government agencies and community-based organizations through all stages of implementation, including planning, training, delivery, evaluation, and sustainability.

The consultants use the Triple P Implementation Framework to support organizations, and the practitioners they employ, adopting Triple P. The consultants help an organization implement Triple P within its specific context and community. Triple P implementation consultants also offer communication support to help organizations and practitioners reach parents.

CAPEDP was a demonstration project* funded by the French National Ministry of Health, the French National Institute for Prevention and Health Education, the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, and the French Public Health Research Institute. It was implemented from 2006 to 2011 by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, the main public university hospital in Paris. No ongoing technical assistance is available.

*The information in this profile represents how the model was implemented during the demonstration trial.