biostudies-literaturePiat MFondation de la recherche en santé du Nouveau-BrunswickFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéMichael Smith Foundation for Health ResearchResearch ManitobaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCIHR101https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8441235biostudies-literatureUnknown2(1)<h4>Background</h4>Seven housing and health services organizations were guided through a process of translating Chapter Six of the Canadian Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Practice into a recovery-oriented innovation and plan for its implementation. At the time of the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown measures, six of the seven organizations had begun implementing their chosen innovation (peer workers, wellness recovery action planning facilitator training, staff training and a family support group). This mid-implementation study used the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to identify contextual factors that influenced organizations to continue or postpone implementation of recovery-oriented innovations in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.<h4>Methods</h4>TwentImplementation science communicationsIdentifying and understanding the contextual factors that shaped mid-implementation outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in organizations implementing mental health recovery innovations into services.PMC8441235148172Piat MCasey RO'Rourke JJRivest MPAlbert HLeblanc SWainwright MSofouli ELabonte LCherkas DfalseIdentifying and understanding the contextual factors that shaped mid-implementation outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in organizations implementing mental health recovery innovations into services.<h4>Background</h4>Seven housing and health services organizations were guided through a process of translating Chapter Six of the Canadian Guidelines for Recovery-Oriented Practice into a recovery-oriented innovation and plan for its implementation. At the time of the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown measures, six of the seven organizations had begun implementing their chosen innovation (peer workers, wellness recovery action planning facilitator training, staff training and a family support group). This mid-implementation study used the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to identify contextual factors that influenced organizations to continue or postpone implementation of recovery-oriented innovations in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.<h4>Methods</h4>Twent2021-01-01T00:00:00Z2021 Sep2026-07-16T11:16:53.118Z2025-05-29T20:46:55.93ZS-EPMC84412353452613610.1186/s43058-021-00206-w