Evidence-based programs will be useful to the extent they produce benefits to individuals on a socially significant scale. It appears the combination of effective programs and effective implementation methods is required to assure consistent uses of programs and reliable benefits to children and families. To date, focus has been placed primarily on generating evidence and determining degrees of rigor required to qualify practices and programs as “evidence-based.” To be useful to society, the focus needs to shift to defining “programs” and to developing state-level infrastructures for statewide implementation of evidence-based programs and other innovations in human services. In this article, the authors explicate a framework for accomplishing these goals and discuss examples of the framework in use.

以证据为基础的计划将在它们为个人带来具有社会意义的规模的利益的范围内发挥作用。看来需要将有效的方案和有效的实施方法结合起来，以确保方案的一致使用以及对儿童和家庭的可靠益处。迄今为止，重点主要放在生成证据和确定将实践和计划限定为“基于证据”所需的严格程度。为了对社会有用，重点需要转移到定义“计划”和发展州级基础设施，以在全州范围内实施循证计划和其他人类服务创新。在本文中，作者阐释了实现这些目标的框架，并讨论了正在使用的框架示例。