How to scale up effective programs

How to scale up effective programs
Child Trends has released a new research brief that reviews practices for scaling up effective programs serving children, youth, and families, and presents those practices that have shown evidence of impact. To complete their review, the authors gathered data from across the research literature and from the experiences of organizations operating evidence-based programs, which included conducting interviews with key staff members from the programs.
 
Key findings were as follows:
  • Effective replication and scale-up of an evidence-based program is a process that requires time, planning, and the mobilization of effort and resources from communities, program developers, and implementing organizations.
  • Program developers and implementing organizations take many approaches to scale up, with some providing the infrastructure to support high-quality implementation through a central organization (e.g., a program purveyor) and others making program materials and training available for purchase for any interested implementer.
  • To ensure that scale-up efforts result in high-quality implementation, program developers, implementing organizations, and funders should consider a number of factors, including identification of core components, selection of the appropriate program for the local context, organizational capacity for scale up, staff and leadership buy-in, monitoring of fidelity and outcomes, provision of ongoing training and technical assistance, and identification of sustainable funding.

Johns Hopkins University 

Research in Brief

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