CBSI studies how behavior, practice, workforce performance, and organizational conditions can be understood and improved across complex systems.
Our work connects behavioral science, organizational improvement, implementation science, lived experience, and local context.
We develop research and evaluation partnerships with practitioners, organizations, communities, and people with lived experience. That collaborative approach helps ensure questions are meaningful, methods are feasible, and findings can inform decisions and practice.
From evidence to action
Research is one part of an implementation cycle, not a separate activity that precedes it.
Co-define the question
With the partners and communities closest to the work, so the question is worth answering.
Study in context
In authentic settings, with methods that are feasible for the people running them.
Translate
Into tools, training, and implementation support partners can actually use.
Improve and scale
Refine, assess readiness, and expand responsibly rather than automatically.
CBSI uses data not only to describe problems, but to guide planning, assess progress, refine supports, and identify the conditions needed for responsible expansion.
What we can do
Partnerships and engagement
Engagement networks and cross-sector research partnerships.
Recruitment and outreach tailored to specific audiences and settings.
Measurement and evaluation
Field-tested quantitative and qualitative measures.
Program evaluation and continuous improvement.
Studies and assessments
Longitudinal datasets and multi-year community studies.
Census surveys, needs assessments, and gap analyses.
Mentoring and Knowledge Translation
Student and pre-service research and mentoring networks.
Translation of findings into training, tools, and implementation supports.
Research areas
Where our current and recent work sits.
Publications and measures
Scholarly and non-scholarly publications, presentations, project reports, evidence summaries, and selected measures or assessments developed or used through CBSI initiatives.
Browse publicationsMore than two decades of research in practice
HANDS in Autism® continues its autism- and disability-focused research, evaluation, measure development, and translation work within CBSI. The HANDS Research site remains the best place to explore its established studies, publications, and research history.
Explore HANDS researchBring us a research question
We work with practitioners, organizations, communities, and university colleagues to define questions worth answering, study them in context, and translate what we learn into something usable. Early conversations are welcome, including ones that start before a proposal exists.
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