Implementation Science: Let’s Begin with Understanding Research and Data Collection

Solid implementation requires attention to the “why” and “does this work.” Typically, staff are not involved in implementation processes. Using an implementation science approach, this presentation tells a story of how best to answer the “why” question with research studies, team processes, and adapting the innovation to your setting.

Speakers:

Faye Taxman, PhD

Faye S. Taxman, Ph.D., is a University Professor at George Mason University. She is a health service criminologist. She is recognized for her work in the development of seamless systems-of-care models that link the criminal justice system with other health care and other service delivery systems and reengineering probation and parole supervision services. She has conducted experiments to examine different processes to improve treatment access and retention, to assess new models of probation supervision consistent with RNR frameworks, and to test new interventions. She developed the translational RNR Simulation Tool (www.gmuace.org/tools) to assist agencies to advance practice. Dr. Taxman has published more than 200 articles. She is the author of numerous books including Implementing Evidence-Based Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment (Springer, 2012 with Steven Belenko). She is co-Editor of Health & Justice and Perspectives (a publication of the American Probation and Parole Association). The American Society of Criminology’s Division of Sentencing and Corrections has recognized her as Distinguished Scholar twice as well as the Rita Warren and Ted Palmer Differential Intervention Treatment award. She received the Joan McCord Award in 2017 from the Division of Experimental Criminology. In 2018, she was appointed a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. She has received numerous awards from practitioner organizations such as the American Probation and Parole Association and Caron Foundation. She has a Ph.D. from Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice.

Tenisha Thurman

Teneshia Thurman is a doctoral candidate in the Criminology, Law and Society department at George Mason University. She currently works as a research assistant at the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!). Teneshia has her M.A. in Criminal Justice from Seattle University and her B.A. is Sociology and Criminology from The Ohio State University. Her research interests include identity and crime, gender and treatment programs, gender and crime, trauma and victimology, and implementation science and translational research.

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