3.2.5. Limitations of UIC TA Role

Beyond the challenges related to content load and timing, UIC TA providers shared several limitations of what they as TA providers were able to bring about through the HWC process. Although they were able to provide tools to TA recipients, follow up with them between sessions, and push them to focus on particularly relevant content or action steps, UIC TA providers could not force TA recipients to actually move toward action. Many UIC TA providers described an obvious shift in TA recipients' thinking over the course of the HWC sessions, but in many cases felt that it was not apparent how those TA recipients will actually move toward action post-process. One UIC TA provider described this challenge below:

*"The "doing" part in their case, I struggled with* ... *so I don't know what else I could have done or you could have done. We literally handed them a lot of stu*ff *and I couldn't get them to really put a plan together ultimately, in terms of what was next."—UIC TA provider.*

Another limitation encountered by UIC TA providers was their ability to promote diverse partnerships between TA recipients in the HWC. While some TA recipients entered the HWC with pre-determined partners (e.g., representatives of other organizations interested in developing interventions to address issues of shared interest), others began and ended the HWC process as individual representatives of their own organizations. One UIC TA provider, who worked primarily with one such individual, described this as an observed limitation during the HWC process:

*"I think [what] the other groups show was that coming in with a team with a diversity of voices really does make a di*ff*erence, that that can foster learning* ... *I think he had some shift in his ideas but I don't it was as much as with the groups where people came in as a diverse team."—UIC TA provider.*
