Centre for Effective Services

Kate and Claire

Well, the lecture tour has finally come to an end. What is clear however, is that the distillation of learning is significant. I had the great good fortune of meeting with the staff team at the Centre for Effective Services: http://www.effectiveservices.org/  This is a very innovative organization whose mission is to connect the design and delivery of services with scientific and technical knowledge of ‘what works’, in order to improve outcomes for children, young people and the families and communities in which they live. I had the pleasure of meeting with ClaireMacEvilly, who works in the area of knowledge exchange and her team member, Katie Burke. Deborah Ghate, Director, was a very gracious host and a leader clearly trying to use innovation, and implementation science to move research to practice. Thank you all for giving me the opportunity to meet and learn from you today. Tomorrow is my final day here and so sadly, the blog will end...I am off tomorrow to see the cliffs of Moher....Stay tuned for great photos! Cheers to all. Katharine