Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation

Practice and Research Together (PART) in collaboration with the Child and Youth Mental Health Information Network (the Network) will be co-hosting a unique event that focuses on the practical means of implementing evidence-informed practice (EIP) from an organizational and systemic perspective. Both are Canadian knowledge translation organizations committed to providing the fields of child welfare and children's mental health practice, respectively, with accessible information to improve practice. The event titled, Connecting the Dots: Making Evidence-Informed Practice a Practical Reality, is being held to recognize and understand the role knowledge broker professionals and organizations play in identifying ways to support, promote and disseminate EIP information to front-line practitioners, organizational leaders and policy analysts. The intended audience for this workshop is international knowledge mobilization organizations working with vulnerable children and families. Fourteen teams from North America, Europe and Australia have been invited and all have confirmed the attendance of one to five participants. The goals of the Workshop are: 1) to bring like-mind organizations together to discuss the challenges, opportunities and real world experiences of linking research to practice, and 2) to strengthen the international collaboration between invited participants that forges enduring international partnerships. The objectives of the Workshop are to: -Create international linkages and partnerships between like-minded organizations -Generate innovative ideas for linking research to practice in order to improve services for vulnerable populations -Disseminate state-of-the-art information and strategies on knowledge generation and linking research to practice -Focus on substantive areas of practice that include: organizational change, implementation strategies, transfer of learning, and strategies to influence policy and practice initiatives.