Service Blueprints: Can they Help Ensure the Ideals of Residential Services are not 'Lost in Translation'?

This article asks: What kind of blueprint would be helpful to translating diverse research evidence into residential services? One possible answer is explored with reference to the practical task of designing a blueprint for a statewide adolescent residential service for addiction in Australia. The article describes the blueprint using a typology of the key features of the ideal service that it models. These aim to help practitioners and policymakers see how to create the different interacting parts of a three-dimensional service based on a learning ethos.