Table 2 Capacity Building Elements
Team and leadership | Forming the implementation team; building a strong effective care team; establishing commitment; motivation, joint goals, responsibility, success; developing attentive leadership at units and with site champions |
Knowledge | Founding expertise; acquiring contextual knowledge (e.g., addictions and mental health); advancing individual competencies (care providers, families/ mothers); adopting evidence-based practice and care (e.g., ESC, mother & baby-/ family- centered, trauma-informed, culturally safe care) |
Ability to change | Changing norms of traditional care; reflecting on attitudes and beliefs; forming a unit climate supportive of learning, reflection, and evaluation |
Relationships | Working towards trusting relationships with mothers and families; building connections within the hospital and across sectors; fostering linkages of acute care and community settings who provide care to mothers to support women pre- and post-delivery, to ensure continuum of care; ensuring open on-going channels of communication among implementation team, staff, patients, and administration |