Description
Course Summary:
Based on TAP 31. This course provides guidance on how to integrate evidence-based practices
(EPBs) for substance abuse treatment into clinical practice. The course explains
how to assess an organizations capacity to identify priorities, implement changes,
evaluate programs, and sustain effective programs over the long run.
Course Goals/objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
• Understand implementation models
• Understand principles of implementing change
• Understand the preplanning stage of implementing change
• Understand the planning stage of implementing change
• Identify how to implement change
• Understand the effective strategies for implementation
• Understand how to navigate roadblocks to implementation
• Understand how to evaluate program implementation
• Understand how to estimate the costs of implementation
• Understand how to plan an evaluation of program implementation
• Know how to collect and analyze data for program evaluation
• Understand how to sustain changes in program implementation