Fidelity of Train-the-Trainer Model Posted on March 1, 2006 Joe Price (bio) explains that his project's next step is seeing if fidelity can be maintained during implementation in an agency.

Interviewer:The train-the-trainer model is a perfect model if it works, but can you do that with fidelity, and can you get the same efficacy?

Price: Within this particular study, we had that, but the question is now as we move past that, moving into implementation. We don't know. That's kind of a second step for us is to see as we disseminate it and implement it within a particular agency, can we maintain the fidelity that we had? We're trying to think, 'How do you do that?' I think it's possible to train someone within child welfare to be a supervisor who could then supervise the groups as long as they've had training, and maybe there is someone who is meeting with them on a regular basis so they can go out and do it. I think it's very possible.

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