The OhioKAN program model considers community outreach and capacity building as core implementation supports to successful implementation and sustainment of the program model. Outreach efforts include a focus on reducing stigma around support seeking behaviors and serving a variety of family constellations. This includes, convening multidisciplinary stakeholders to build awareness and knowledge within communities and…

Community service and support mapping are considered core implementation supports for successful implementation and sustainment of the OhioKAN program model. The OhioKAN program staff utilize a list of resources to align the needs of families identified in the BASICS with the resources available in the community. The resources matched with the family’s needs are then…

Fidelity is the extent to which the delivery of an intervention is consistent with the original design and intent of service delivery to achieve outcomes for the population the intervention was designed to serve. The following section specifies how the OhioKAN program model conceptualizes fidelity to the context, content, and competence needed to produce positive…

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is a way for teams and organizations to reflect and ask themselves, “How are we doing?” and “How can we do it better?” CQI provides a process for the intentional use of evidence to critically assess performance, identify strengths and areas needing improvement, identify solutions, and monitor those solutions in an…

Included in the OhioKAN core components are the core implementation supports deemed essential for successful implementation of the OhioKAN program model. Such supports are essential to creating an enabling context where OhioKAN’s practices can be implemented and produce the program’s intended outcomes. The National Implementation Research Network’s (NIRN) Active Implementation Frameworks defines an enabling context…