Rarely do those in research have an opportunity to communicate their results on a large scale, i.e., dissemination, and to help service agencies to implement research-based changes in policy, program, and practice, i.e., utilization. The literature contains few descriptions of major projects of this kind. In this article, we shall describe such a project, tell what led up to it, recount the activities that went into it, report the results, and suggest what we think contributed to its success, including the larger external forces of which the project was but a part. Called the Permanency Planning Project, it carried as a full name in the contract, “Dissemination and Utilization of Permanent Planning Strategies for Children in Long-Term Foster Care.” Funded by the Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children Youth and Families, the four-and-a-half year contract was awarded in October 1976 to the Regional Research Institute for Human Services, which is an applied social research facility of Portland State University, affiliated with the School of Social Work. A goal of the national project was no less than to reduce the numbers of children residing in foster family care on an un-