Capacity Building
Program staff often need to build their own capacity in one or more areas to ensure the project's outcomes over time. Staff may need training in a variety of areas, such as conducting elements of an evidence-based practice being implemented, building agency infrastructure, creating or revising policies and procedures, or adapting programs to address specific cultural needs. For example, a program's continued success may depend as much on an efficient referral system that notifies students of services as it does on the innovative intervention that staff have been trained to implement.
How can capacity building build program sustainability? Implementing evidence-based interventions involve building staff capacity to conduct parent training groups, using learning activities with students, following protocols for service delivery, and other such direct service activities. The way training is designed to build staff capacity has the potential to sustain such interventions. For instance, if staff receives both provider and training of trainer levels of curricula, they will be prepared to train new employees as the original staff leaves their positions over time. Similarly, if supervisors and administrators are involved in training, they will be able to provide supervision and administrative support to keep the implementation going after grant funds expire.
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- Offering staff training and development
- Building infrastructure
- Developing procedures and policies
- Implementing evidence based practices
- Adapting your evolving program
Offering staff training and development
Sustaining Interventions in Community Systems: On the Relationship Between Researchers and Communities (Journal Article) - full text not available
http://library.promoteprevent.org/item.php?id=118554&catid=116366
New Initiatives: Considerations Related to Planning, Implementing, Sustaining, and Going to Scale * (Report)
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/briefs/sustainbrief.pdfOur Model of Practice: Building Capacity for Community and Systems Change (Toolkit)
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/section_1002.htmOntario Prevention Clearinghouse (Web site)
http://www.opc.on.ca/english/index.htm
Developing procedures and policies
Promoting Sustainability of Community Health Initiatives: An Empirical Case Study (Case-Study) - full text not available
http://library.promoteprevent.org/item.php?id=118664&catid=116365Our Model of Practice: Building Capacity for Community and Systems Change (Toolkit)
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/EN/section_1002.htmOntario Prevention Clearinghouse (Web site)
http://www.opc.on.ca/english/index.htmThinking Broadly: Financing Strategies for Comprehensive Child and Family Initiatives (Guide/Publication)
http://www.financeproject.org/Publications/ThinkingBroadly.pdfStrategies for Capacity-Building Activities (Guide) http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/filemanager/
download/online/sustainability_strategies.pdf
Implementing evidence based practices
Promoting Sustainability of Community Health Initiatives: An Empirical Case Study (Case-Study)
http://library.promoteprevent.org/item.php?id=118664&catid=116365Child Survival Technical Support. Sustaining Child Survival: Many roads to chose, but do we have a map? (Report)
http://www.childsurvival.com/documents/CSTS/csts_new.pdfImplementing Prevention Programs in High-Risk Environments: Applications of the Resiliency Paradigm (Journal Article) - full text not available
http://library.promoteprevent.org/item.php?id=118588&catid=116365Planning, Selecting, Implementing, and Evaluating Evidence-Based Interventions and Programs (Paper)
http://abi.ed.asu.edu/resources/ideas/selecting_interventions.pdfChild Trends "What Works" series (Web site)
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/WhatWorks/6Educational
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