Table 2.

Top six innovator ideas

Title	Idea	Issues addressed through idea	Challenge Committee rating ranking (n = 6)a	GALA attendee rating rankingb
Pre-session preparation	Create a relaxing waiting room that helps prepare the patient (along with a “pre-session quick sheet”) for the session ahead	Stress created from chaotic waiting room that detracts from session time and opportunities to implement EBPs	1	1
Experts in your back pocket	Network of EBP experts are available for consultation and supervision via a hotline or face-to-face appointments	Lack of experts on various EBPs within organizations	2	5
Workshops and rewards	Point-based system for EBP fidelity and workshop attendance that can be used towards session supplies or gift cards	Clinician burnout and lack of incentive for clinicians	3	4
Electronic evidence-based screening instrument inventory	Provide validated screening instruments in the EMR to clinicians to easily assess treatment needs and track client progress	Barriers to implementing measurement-based care	4	6
On-site training and fidelity follow up	A certified EBP trainer comes to an organization and provides on-site training and consultation	Lack of EBP support within organization and barriers to attending distant training sessions	5	2
Community-based mentoring program for EBP	Implement an intra-agency EBP mentoring program that addresses therapist isolation and lack of community understanding from EBP experts	Therapist isolation and lack of community understanding from EBP experts	6	3

^aChallenge Committee members were asked to rate all the ideas based on their enthusiasm for the idea’s “potential to increase therapist use of evidence-based practice” using a 1–5 Likert scale. The top 6 ideas (presented here) were chosen, and the ranking of the ideas are presented in this column

^bGALA attendees were asked “How excited are you about the idea” following the presentations at the IDEA GALA and ranked ideas using a 1–10 Likert scale. The ranking of the top 6 ideas are presented in this column