Children and families cannot benefit from effective programs and practices that they do not receive. The addition of carefully designed, proactive, and ongoing implementation support can strengthen the odds of local county systems’ effective program delivery and getting to improved outcomes for children and families. In a parallel process, implementation support systems also need ongoing capacity building and organizational support to improve and sustain.

Since September 2016, based on our previous implementation support work, the Impact Center at FPG has worked with California state, regional, and cross-county leaders to strengthen a multi-level system of implementation support. We partner with statewide leaders to facilitate ongoing teaming and support activities that build county leadership roles in their own local implementation processes as well as those of California’s existing Regional Training Academies (RTA) that support counties. One aspect of this work involves ongoing development and delivery of the Core Practice Model Directors Institute (CPM DI). The DI is focused on initial leadership and resource/tool development in essential areas for building counties’ local readiness for local CPM implementation planning. We also work with RTAs directly to strengthen their internal implementation infrastructure (Implementation Support Teams, ISTs), capacities, and skills, actively supported by RTA leadership, for working with counties for the successful and sustainable implementation of the CPM in each region. Via multi-level efforts and in a parallel process, this work is ensuring the ongoing time, dedicated effort, and intentional and resourced assistance to both the emergent RTA ISTs (implementing implementation support for counties) and counties (implementing the CPM).