1. Community Implementation Workgroup
Co-Chairs:
Jennifer Leeman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jackie Shannon, Oregon Health & Science University
Kerri Winters-Stone, Oregon Health & Science University
This presentation was supported by Cooperative Agreement U48-DP and U48-DP from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings and conclusions in this presentation are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

2. Project Objective
Develop, test, and refine implementation support strategies (training, technical assistance, and tools) with the goal of building community planners’ capacity to select, adapt, and implement evidence-based interventions (EBIs).

3. Project Specific Aims
Continue to support, evaluate, and refine the Putting Public Health Evidence in Action curriculum with a focus on scalable approaches to delivery.
Develop EBI-specific implementation support that supplements the existing curriculum with EBI-specific training, technical assistance, and tools.
Develop measures of the effectiveness of implementation support.
Describe variations in interventions and contexts and how they are associated with grantees’ performance of key components of the implementation process.

4. Work Completed – Aim 1
Refining and scaling Putting Public Health Evidence in Action
Delivered in-person, 2-day sessions in NC to 120+
Delivered via 1-day webinar with in-person breakouts and pre/post online sessions in Oregon
Piloted with 39 participants, replicated with 64
Added 2 modules: QI and Communication
Delivered Train-the-Trainer Learning Institute at the APHA 2015 annual meeting

5. Download Putting Evidence in Action at:
Putting Public Health Evidence in Action

6. Trains community planners and health educators all steps in the process…
Establishing Goals & Objectives;
Planning for Evaluation
Assessing your Community
Finding Evidence
Selecting Best Fitting EBA
Adapting
Implementing & Evaluating
…of adopting and implementing EBAs

7. Work Completed and Ongoing – Aim 2
EBI-specific technical assistance
Piloted in NC
Cohort 1 – Three webinars focused on corner store intervention
Cohort 2 - Three webinars focused on obesity prevention interventions
Piloting in Oregon
Targeted call for proposals to do corner store or community physical activity interventions
Four grants awarded
EBI-specific technical assistance (Summer 2016)

8. Work Completed and Ongoing – Aim 3
Develop measures of the effectiveness of implementation support
Data collected on training participants’ capacity to plan, implement, evaluate EBIs
Factor analysis planned for Summer 2016
Formative work to develop measure of implementation quality and stages if implementation completion (Summer 2016)

9. Work in Progress – Aim 4
Describe variations in interventions and contexts and how they are associated with grantees’ performance of key components of the implementation process.
Conduct formative study of OHSU grantees: code grant applications and interview grantees

10. Future work Manuscripts planned
Findings from factor analysis of measure of planners’ capacity
Approaches taking Putting Public Health Evidence into Action to scale
Create a cohort of community-based grantees for CPCRN collaborating centers

11. Contribution to/Impact on D&I Science
A curriculum for training community planners to select, adapt, implement, and evaluate EBI
Implementation support (training, TA, tools) for specific EBIs
Theory on how implementation support works for whom
Measures of implementation supports effectiveness

12. Contribution to/Impact on Cancer Prevention & Control
Knight Community Partnership Program Grantees all focus on CPC
EBI-specific implementation support for CPC EBI
Focus now is on OHSU’s areas of expertise
In future could develop and pilot for other CPCRN focus areas
Measures and theory being developed are widely applicable to CPC implementation support initiatives