Practicing Implementation Blog
March 30, 2020
Allison Metz, Leah Bartley, Amanda Farley
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
Laura Louison
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, Kim DuMont, & Allison Metz
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
Caryn Ward
"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
Audrey Loper
Several months ago, I read Brent Dykes Forbes article about data storytelling, and the big takeaway for me was this: People dont remember numbers. What they do remember are stories....
July 24, 2019
Caryn Ward
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...
July 5, 2019
Leah Bartley
Practice Profiles are a participant-driven methodology to operationalize the values and core components of an innovation. The iterative and developmental approach includes a variety of stakeholder and consumer perspectives at...
June 3, 2019
Laura Louison
Welcome to the new online home of the National Implementation Research Network! We have redesigned our website to better showcase our work and make our tools and resources more accessible....
May 17, 2019
Allison Metz
Implementation science includes research and practice. Implementation research seeks to understand the approaches that work best to translate research to the real world. Implementation practice seeks to apply and adapt...