Unit presents on putting research into practice

The Social Research Unit is attending this week's inaugural Global Implementation Conference in Washington DC, where it is presenting three papers.

Louise Morpeth, Unit Co-director, will discuss the application of the Unit's Common Language 'operating system' in Birmingham UK, where it led to the implementation and experimental evaluation of PATHS, Triple P, Incredible Years and Nurse Family Partnership. She will highlight some of the challenges of the work and lessons learnt.
 
Tim Hobbs, Unit Researcher, will present two papers based on the Evidence2Success project (a collaboration between the Unit, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the University of Washington and others).
 
The first sets out issues and methods concerning the measurement of child well-being in communities and service systems. The second paper describes criteria for assessing whether programmes are ready for implementation in service systems, and makes some early observations about their application. These criteria are from standards of evidence developed to help decide which programmes will appear on the Evidence2Success database of tested and effective programmes.
 
To read more about the conference, please visit this link: Global Implementation Conference