Implementation evaluation of a train-the-trainer knowledge transfer program to prevent child maltreatment
The study of prevention practices in Public Health suggests that innovations proven effective by research are not necessarily the most widely used. (Ringwalt et al., 2002, Wandersman and Florin 2003). Thus, it was with the goal of putting forward not only an evidence-based innovation, but also an innovation that would be useful to the community that the “Centre de liaison sur l’intervention et la prévention psychosociale” (CLIPP) implemented in 2006 the train-the-trainer program called Agir en milieu de garde. However, the dosage and fidelity of implementation activities remain major issues in this kind of program (Hahn, Noland, Rayens and Christie, 2002). This evaluation of the Agir en milieu de garde training program focuses on two aspects of the implementation: the level of correspondence with the original innovation and the amount of activities implemented (Dane and Schneider, 1998). The results explain the level of implementation of these two indicators as well as the influence of three major categories of factors, which are the multiplying agents’ individual features, the community’s organizational features and the innovation’s distinctive features.