The Impact Center at FPG’s Build Up project began as a partnership with the Behavioral Health Springboard (UNC School of Social Work), DHHS’s Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Substance Abuse Services – and Division of Child and Family Well-Being.

As the original pilot project ended, future efforts are evolving toward broadening the reach and scope of lessons learned from the pilot while extending implementation science capacity building efforts to child and family well-being organizations and communities. Resources have been designed using best practices from implementation science, and implementation science practice experiences, to facilitate the spread and adoption of BBI-Six Core Strategies given the trauma-centered, community engagement, youth and family voice and choice elements involved. The web hub’s aims include moving from a singular focus on past BBI-Six Core activities, to helping interested others (a) build general and/or innovation-specific implementation system and practice proficiencies, (b) support ongoing capacity building for state and local partners, and (c) further grow youth and family voice, choice and trauma-informed innovations in child behavioral health residential treatment settings through exposure to the shared lessons learned and associated resources.

Built through a co-designed and co-creative process, the web hub houses project-specific resources from the BBI-Six Core pilot and other items highlighting implementation science best practices. Original goals for these web resources include organizing and making available lessons learned, tools/aids/resources, and multi-media examples produced during the two-year Building Bridges (BBI)-Six Core Strategies pilot initiative in North Carolina’s child residential treatment system.  These resources can help those interested in applying BBI-Six Core Strategies principles and practices within their own child and family behavioral health treatment environments, Systems of Care, local prevention systems, Children with Complex Needs, integrated school/community behavioral health and other family/community support and settings.  Materials will evolve and grow as our ongoing support activities produces additional resources. Our team aims to continue building system and organizational readiness for innovation adoption and scaling in child behavioral health systems through co-designed multiple support activities involving the provision of timely implementation support, adult learning, coaching, technical assistance, and related resources.