Behavioural Supports Ontario (BSO) is a pre-designate Best Practice Spotlight Organization® (BPSO®) serving long-term care (LTC) homes in Hamilton, Haldimand-Norfolk, Brantford, Burlington and Niagara Regions.  Learn more about how they leveraged leadership to engage teams in person- and family-centred care in this case study. 

RNAO's Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) program has integrated a collective identity of knowledge champions to advance evidence uptake and sustainability.

Multiple communities mobilized to sustain a childhood obesity prevention program through targeted individual and collective action. Read more in this case study. 

As one of the preconditions of social movement action, this element focuses on strategies to root the change as meaningful and urgently needed. 

A key feature of the Leading Change Toolkit is the inclusion of two complementary implementation frameworks. Combined, the Social Movement Action (SMA) Framework and the Knowledge-to-Action (KTA) Framework, create a powerful, novel approach that can support you and your change team to lead a practice change using an evidence-based resource, like an RNAO best practice guideline (BPG).

A key characteristic of the Social Movement Action Framework is "Collective identity" in which individuals engaged in a change initiative develop a shared identity that acts as a powerful driver or 'glue' for their continued commitment to the change and taking action. 

One of the key characteristics of the Social Movement Action Framework is networks of people and resources; these act as supportive mechanisms to access and share tools, ideas and energy to advance change. 

One of the key characteristics of the Social Movement Action Framework is momentum. This article page describes this element in detail. 

A key characteristic of the Social Movement Action Framework is core leadership structures (or change teams) whose role is to support the guidance and leadership of the change with input and action from others. 

An outcome of the Social Movement Action Framework' is scaling in which the change initiative is spread, widened or normalized.