Facilitating Sustainment Through Implementation Feedback: The SIC Coaching Model

This study aims to test the impact of an empirically derived implementation strategy—under
real-world conditions and across multiple child service systems—on successful adoption and
sustainment of two evidence-based programs that address adolescent substance abuse: Treatment
Foster Care Oregon (TFCO; formerly Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care) and
Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), both developed with funding from NIDA. Methods for
this study utilize "technology-based approaches" for "implementing large-scale change."
Leveraging previous data focused on developing and testing the 8-staged Stages of
Implementation Completion (SIC) tool, a randomized evaluation of a SIC Coaching Strategy
(SIC-CS) is proposed. Study activities include extending the SIC into the Sustainment Phase
and testing the SIC-CS to support the adoption of new evidence-based programs.