Implementation

Implementation Science

This proposal is strengthened by a foundation in implementation science, ensuring the intervention is designed not only to be evidence-informed but also feasible, scalable, and sustainable within real-world primary care settings. The model addresses known barriers, including competing clinic priorities and provider variability in intervention delivery. Stakeholder perspectives are embedded throughout the design, with attention to the needs and roles of primary care providers, adolescents, parents, and health systems.

Implementation strategies are intentionally selected to support adoption and fidelity, to enable a shift from “screen and refer” to “screen and support” within existing care structures.

The intervention is informed by established implementation science frameworks, including Proctor's Implementation Outcomes Framework, the Stages of Implementation Completion, and a structured Logic Model. Together, they ensure the intervention is not only theoretically sound, but operationalized for delivery, evaluation, and dissemination in primary care environments.

If overthinking is the science of getting stuck, implementation science is the discipline of getting unstuck: turning what we know works into what actually happens in practice.My career has centered on one core capability: simplify complexity. Success depends on aligning message, psychology, operational constraints, and long-term goals. These skills transfer directly to health system implementation.

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