Support From Intermediary Organizations for Evidence-Based Practices in Behavioral Health Care

Intermediary and purveyor organizations play a key role in disseminating and implementing evidence-based behavioral health best practices (EBPs). The authors provide a case example to describe how state-funded intermediaries can enhance the implementation and sustainment of EBP. Benefits of using state-funded intermediaries include the ability to collaborate with state entities to address barriers to and then incentivize best practices, access to resources to develop a robust infrastructure to support EBP training and implementation, and enhanced capacity to support organizations beyond individual EBPs (e.g., developing an internal quality-improvement process, supporting cross-cutting competencies, and helping organizations to identify synergies across EBP and to prioritize what to implement first).