A new framework and practice center for adapting, translating, and scaling evidence-based health/wellness programs for people with disabilities

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Article describes a knowledge-to-practice framework that will support therapists and other rehabilitation professionals in building and maintaining a database of successful health/wellness guidelines, recommendations, and adaptations to promote community health inclusion for people with disabilities. The framework was developed in the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) to systematically build and advance the evidence base of health/wellness programs, practices, and services applicable to people with newly acquired and existing disabilities. The NCHPAD Knowledge Adaptation, Translation, and Scale-up (N-KATS) framework has 4 sequencing strategies: Knowledge Adaptation (strategy 1), Dissemination and Training (strategy 2), Implementation Facilitation (strategy 3), and Update and Maintenance (strategy 4).The N-KATS framework supports the role of rehabilitation professionals as knowledge brokers, facilitators, and users in a collaborative, dynamic structure that will grow and be sustained over time through the NCHPAD.

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