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Issues in Disseminating and Replicating Effective Prevention Programs
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The new frontier for prevention research involves building a scientific knowledge base on how to disseminate and implement effective prevention programs with fidelity. Toward this end, a brief overview of findings from the Blueprints for Violence Prevention-Replication Initiative is presented, identifying factors that enhance or impede a successful implementation of these programs. Findings are organized around five implementation tasks: site selection, training, technical assistance, fidelity, and sustainability. Overall, careful attention to each of these tasks, together with an independent monitoring of fidelity, produced a successful implementation with high fidelity and sustainability. A discussion of how these findings inform the present local adaptation-fidelity debate follows.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Elliott, D. S., & Mihalic, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Corresponding author
- Elliott, Delbert S.
- ORCID
- Elliott, Delbert S.
- Venue
- Prevention Science
- Published
- 2004-03
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 47-53
- ISSN
- 1389-4986 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6695
- OpenAlex
- W2034770289
- Semantic Scholar
- 8ddc116f62d22d8c8ad4cf7a7fdae34d7801799c
- Cited by
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- FWCI
- 41.93
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Prevention Science (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Keywords
- program replication, implementation fidelity, violence prevention, technical assistance, site selection, employee training, program sustainability, local adaptation, implementation monitoring
- MeSH terms
- Diffusion of Innovation, Preventive Health Services, United States, Program Evaluation
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