The Child and Family Evidence-Based Practice Consortium special issue: Effective implementation of evidence-supported treatment

Each year, the Child and Family Evidence-Based Practice Consortium organizes a track of presentations for the Research and Policy Conference for Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health. Sponsored by the University of South Florida’s Department of Child and Family Studies and the Children’s Mental Health Network. In March 2020, this conference convenes for its 33rd year in Tampa. For this Journal of Family Social Work special issue, the Consortium invited contributors from its track of presentations at the 32nd annual conference to submit manuscripts. Since 2002, the Consortium has engaged practitioners, administrators, researchers, and faculty interested in providing evidence-based and promising practices for children, youth, and families. Consortium efforts focus upon the selection and effective implementation of these practices as well as relevant workforce preparation and development. Consortium participants include leaders from Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States, some of whom also consult and provide technical assistance in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Consortium participation is voluntary, and projects are not reliant upon any single funding source. Hence, efforts evolve through interdisciplinary selfgoverning and creative discourse as multiple fields address the promise and challenge of implementing evidence-based and promising practices for children, youth, and families. Members explore differing perspectives, emerging questions, challenges, and successful strategies in systems-change and research efforts. They are active in related organizations and groups such as Abt Associates with the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse, the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), Evidence-Based Associates, the Families Foundation, Judge Baker Children’s Center, the National Child Trauma Stress Network (NCTSN), the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health (NTTAC), Triple P International, andWheeler Clinics of Connecticut. Participants are also engaged in the Global Implementation Society and in its development of a new journal,