Guidance, Training, and Support

The Duke Evidence-based Practice Implementation Center (Duke EPIC) of the Duke University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is dedicated to closing the gap between the establishment of evidence-based treatments and practices and their incorporation into frontline care. 

Duke EPIC offers comprehensive guidance, training, and support to organizations and systems that wish to provide and sustain the most effective interventions to the populations they serve.

Learning Collaboratives and Breakthrough Series Collaboratives

Working with key stakeholders from partner organizations, the Duke EPIC team promotes innovative Learning Collaboratives and Breakthrough Series Collaboratives that use face-to-face and web-based training platforms, adult learning principles, and small tests of change (STOCs) to help partners implement and monitor evidence-based therapies and practices in an effective, sustainable way.

What is Evidence-Based Practice?

The integration of the best empirically supported research evidence with practitioners’ clinical expertise and patient/client values.