Leveraging Systemic Contributors and Adaptations to Sharpen Interventions: The IMPActS Workshop

Abstract

A common pattern among intervention implementations is that, in many cases, initial adoption and early signals of success are followed by dwindling participation, signals that the intervention is not achieving its goals, and abandonment of the intervention as it was originally conceived. The IMPActS Framework facilitates anticipation of misalignment among stakeholders during the design, pitch, implementation, and sustainability of a candidate intervention’s implementation. We adapted the IMPActS Framework to design an IMPActS Workshop to occur within the context of an ongoing research with a partner organization to develop their proactive performance monitoring and sustained adaptability management program. The IMPActS Workshop prospectively tests the implementation sustainability of candidate interventions and sharpened intervention design to improve the likelihood of sustainment across the organization. We report the motivation, methods, results, and lessons learned from this effort.