System Implementation Issue Briefs
Abstract
This series of issue briefs are based on findings from RTC Study 2: Case Studies of System Implementation, one of six interrelated studies from the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health's research program from 2004-2009.
The purpose of Case Studies of System Implementation was to identify strategies that local communities undertake in implementing community-based systems of care and provide greater understanding of how factors affecting system implementation contribute to the development of local systems of care for children with serious emotional disturbance and their families. These issue briefs describe the use of the system of care (SOC) definition by the team to identify established SOC communities for the study, and the evolution of this process into the development of an expanded definition of the system of care concept. They present cross-site patterns of system implementation based on lessons learned from data collected in Phases I and II of Case Studies of System Implementation and offer a suggested model in which established system of care (SOC) communities leverage change.
- System of Care Definition
System Implementation Issue Brief #1 (2007)
[174kb pdf] - Critical Factors in System of Care Implementation
System Implementation Issue Brief #2 (2007)
[187kb pdf] - Strategies for System of Care Development: Locally Identified Factors for System Implementation Supplement to Issue Brief #2 (2007)
[300kb pdf] - Leadership Qualities in Successful Systems of Care
System Implementation Issue Brief #3 (2007)
[185kb pdf] - Evidence-based Practices and Systems of Care: Implementation Matters System Implementation Issue Brief #4 (2007)
[167kb pdf] - What Works: System Development Strategies Across Communities
System Implementation Issue Brief #5
[217kb pdf] - Quality Improvement Strategies that Work
System Implementation Issue Brief #6 (2008)
[205kb pdf]