FPG scientist Michelle A. Duda is working with Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to improve outcomes for children and youth.

CAMH’s Provincial System Support Program is intended to create and build the implementation capacity of regional and local Implementation Teams. Using Active Implementation frameworks, Duda, is helping CAMH to develop the infrastructure for sustaining and scaling up interventions in children’s mental health and addiction. She assesses current systems, provides recommendations for building capacity, creates opportunities to apply principles of implementation science, and supports leadership.

Duda, who serves on national and international advisory boards and science panels, also recently led a live chat for CAMH for an audience interested in learning how to put a health care intervention into practice. She spoke about the National Implementation Research Network’s implementation science framework, which NIRN also delivers through Health Learning lessons developed in partnership with Alberta Health Services, featuring activities and experiences in a Canadian healthcare setting.

Available through FPG’s Active Implementation Hub, these lessons are short, interactive web presentations, focusing on specific implementation tools and practices. Users can view them online for self-paced learning or tap them for professional development in a team setting. Lessons include: “Developing and Using Terms of Reference to Support Implementation Teams,” “Stages of Implementation: Where Are We?,” “Practice Profile Tool: Planning for Implementation,” and “The PDSA Cycle: Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle for Rapid Cycle Problem Solving.”

At the third biannual meeting of the International Consortium for Evidence-Based Practices in Ireland, Duda delivered a presentation on selecting evidence-based practices and building implementation capacity across Canada. She also spoke on the “Tools to Support System Change” panel last year at the first CAMH Knowledge Exchange Webinar.

Watch “Tools to Support System Change”

Visit the Health Learning lessons at FPG’s Active Implementation Hub

Contact
Michelle Duda, Scientist
UNC’s Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
duda@unc.edu
919-966-7323; 813-382-2055

This story is from the new issue of Early Developments.