“…These barriers include bureaucratic or rigid organizational structures, organizational cultures and climates that are resistant to research and experimentation, and/or the lack of time and fiscal resources needed for staff training for implementing evidence-informed practice . In this era of increasing accountability for social services, there has been an ongoing search for ways to model evidence-informed practice, create learning environments, construct knowledge-sharing communities, and promote a culture of ongoing practice improvement to support the capacities of practitioners to integrate research and practice (Austin, Dal Santo, & Lee, 2012;Gray, 2009;Plath, 2014;Raffel, Lee, Dougherty, & Greene, 2013). Some of the knowledge brokering tasks needed to strengthen the development of learning organizations include the capacity to (1) identify, evaluate, and translate research for use in different practice settings (Jackson-Bowers, Kalucy, & McIntyre, 2006;Lomas, 2007;Meyer, 2010;Waring, Currie, Crompton, & Bishop, 2013); (2) apply relevant research to specific practice settings (Jackson-Bowers et al, 2006;Kramer, Cole, & Leithwood, 2004;Lomas, 2007;Meyer, 2010;Waring et al, 2013); (3) build research-focused relationships between practitioners and researchers (Jackson-Bowers et al, 2006;Lomas, 2007;(4) build the research capacity of staff (Meyer, 2010;Rivard et al, 2010;Traynor, DeCorby, & Dobbins, 2014); and (5) manage research resources and data (Jackson-Bowers et al, 2006).…”