Stakeholder Concerns

Stakeholders have concerns about the costs, goals, and impacts of evidence-based practices (Ganju, 2003, p. 128-129)

• Administrators and funders may consider that the cost of changing service delivery is too expensive an investment.
• Advocates may consider that the goals of some evidence-based practices may not directly promote recovery.
• Families and consumers may be concerned that evidence-based practices will be considered the only beneficial ones, and that this will limit the availability of services that families and consumers think are beneficial.

Recently, NRI convened a meeting of multiorganizational stakeholders, who collectively identified Key Concerns Among EBP Stakeholders.