The Six Core Strategies©/Building Bridges implementation support project aligns with North Carolina’s Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services’ Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) residential redesign efforts, which are expected to improve treatment (client/family) and agency (PRTF) outcomes.

Since February 2019, The Impact Center in partnership with UNC’s School of Social Work (Behavioral Health Springboard), has been providing implementation support to a state project team, a state learning collaborative co-created by key leaders and stakeholders, and 6 PRTFs. Over the next two years, the project will build capacity and support ongoing performance in selected PRTF’s using BBI best practices and prioritized Six Core Strategies (chosen by the PRTF’s). The Impact Center engages in proactive implementation support and best practices to:

• help align the strategies with each PRTF’s capacities, fit and culture,
• install selected strategies and ensure fidelity to the adopted strategies – through increasing agency capacities and performance associated with the adopted strategies,
• create sustainability strategies for ongoing use and quality improvement of the intervention(s), and
• offer strategic support to the state leadership team and others chosen by the Child Behavioral Health Services Team Leader and project leadership in the form of adult learning, professional development and implementation science-informed coaching.