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After decades of research and policy initiatives, the advice to use evidence-based practices has become a mantra for improving clinical care. In behavioral health, most evidence-based practices are psychosocial interventions: interpersonal or informational strategies to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. Hundreds of evidence-based psychosocial interventions now exist, and research shows that their use in real-world systems can confer demonstrable effects on communitylevel outcomes.1 Nevertheless, research also indicates that these interventions are used infrequently and inconsistently and that most efforts to implement them are unsuccessful,2 dramatically limiting their potential for promoting well-being.