Enhancing school capacity to adopt school behavioural health best practices: A multiple‐case study evaluation

Abstract

AbstractComprehensive school behavioural health best practices are widely disseminated. How to build schools’ capacity to implement these interventions is not well understood. This study explored how a coordinated set of capacity‐building strategies (e.g., individualized technical assistance [TA], community of practice [CoP]) facilitated the adoption of school behavioural health best practices. A multiple‐case study design was used to examine the relationship between capacity‐building strategies and implementation of comprehensive school behavioural health in three schools. Engagement in capacity‐building activities, use of relationship‐based TA, focus on organizational‐ and individual‐level modifications for both general and innovation‐specific improvements and identification of influential change agents were associated with the adoption of school behavioural health best practices. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.