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Sustainment Phase
Congratulations, you’ve reached the final phase in this Implementation Roadmap: maintaining (and continuing to optimize) your program....or in technical jargon, Sustainment. While it may be tempting to relax, this is critical phase to ensure your implementation has a lasting effect.
The Sustainment phase is also called performance to data to adaptation. This means you collect data to assess how the intervention is performing, as well as how you can ensure continued support for it. Sustainment is also the time to make additional adaptions that you realized, over the course of the Implementation Phase, will be required for your practice to last long-term. Finally, it is important to share your findings so that others may benefit.
The following specific task are discussed during the Sustainment Phase:
Impact evaluation effectiveness
This data collection includes continuous monitoring of evidence-based practice’s fidelity, quality, outcomes, system impacts, and return-on-investment. Learn how to work with the various stakeholders to develop and adapt feasible plans to modify your approach to make it sustainable. You are seeking a self-sustaining implementation that doesn’t rely on external support. Learn More
Adaptations in later stages for sustainment and scale out
It’s safe to assume that during the Implementation Phase, you identified additional adaptations needed for your practice to last long-term. These adaptations go beyond the initial changes you made to fit your context. These are changes that you know will be required so that your clinicians and staff don’t want to revert to the old way. Learn More
Sharing your findings
Read our guidance to help you capture the important lessons learned so that you can easily share them. Learn More
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