“…The emphasis on EBPs has had significant challenges and barriers in real-world application, implementation, and sustainability within and across community correctional agencies, particularly when it comes to fidelity and adherence to these EBPs (Lowenkamp et al, 2006, 2013; Porporino, 2018; Taxman and Belenko, 2012; Viglione et al, 2018). An understudied, yet important area of community corrections are the frontline workers (hereafter referred to as POs for probation and parole officers) tasked with using, implementing, sustaining, supervising, overseeing, and maintaining the quality of these practices (Viglione et al, 2015b) and overall processes that help or hinder implementation, sustainability, and fidelity to these EBPs (Elliott and Mihalic, 2004; Taxman and Belenko, 2012). With approximately 4.4 million adults under community correctional supervision in the United States as of 2018 (Kaeble and Alper, 2020), it is vital to understand not just what works but how EBPs can be best translated into the real world.…”