Practicing Implementation Blog

June 11, 2020
The National Implementation Research Network condemns racism and police violence against Black people in the United States. Anti-black racism has plagued this country for more than 400 years.  As we...

May 13, 2020
Check out this new blog post at Integration and Implementation Insights, written by NIRN's Allison Metz. The blog post describes the importance of leading with relationships to support rapid change and...

April 21, 2020
While activities related to assessing need and context are often framed as an exploration or early stage activity, stakeholders in public systems and community partners describe the need to assess...

April 16, 2020
As we seek to support public agencies in implementing mission critical work during the pandemic, we are reminded of a fundamental approach to effective implementation practice – co-creation. Co-creation involves...

March 30, 2020
During this time of crisis, so much has changed for the service systems we partner with.  In response, we are shifting our support from building implementation capacity to helping agencies...

March 25, 2020
Like many in this time of restricted travel, remote learning and working from home, the NIRN team is paying more attention than ever to using virtual meetings effectively. It's not easy...

December 20, 2019
Beadsie Woo, at The Annie E. Casey Foundation; Kim DuMont, at The William T. Grant Foundation; and Allison Metz, at the National Implementation Research Network have co-authored a new blog on what equitable implementation...

November 5, 2019
"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it."  Such a simple quote by Peter Drucker, but at the same time powerful and so very true. I recently received personal...

August 5, 2019
Several months ago, I read Brent Dyke’s Forbes article about data storytelling, and the big takeaway for me was this: People don’t remember numbers. What they do remember are stories....

July 24, 2019
Have you ever been part of an organization that was about to start using a new practice, or part of a team trying to figure out why the results of...

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