Public-Academic Partnerships: Evidence-Based Implementation: The Role of Sustained Community-Based Practice and Research Partnerships

This column describes a process for adapting an evidence-based practice in community clinics in which researchers and community providers participated and the resulting framework for implementation of the practice—Replicating Effective Programs-Facilitation. A two-day meeting for the Recovery-Oriented Collaborative Care study was conducted to elicit input from more than 50 stakeholders, including community providers, health care administrators, and implementation researchers. The process illustrates an effective researcher-community partnership in which stakeholders worked together not only to adapt the evidence-based practice to the needs of the clinical settings but also to develop the implementation strategy. (Psychiatric Services 63:205–207, 2012; doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201200032)