Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a multidisciplinary, team-based model that provides intensive community-based and outreach-oriented services to people who experience the most severe and persistent mental illness. The vast majority also have a co-occurring substance use disorder and many experience comorbid medical illnesses as well as homelessness. This is a vulnerable population and their providers – ACT teams – are at elevated risk themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Northwest MHTTC is partnering with the Institute for Best Practices at the University of North Carolina to host and facilitate regular meetings for ACT teams.
Goals of the meetings are to:
In addition to the meet-up, we have also created a Virtual Discussion Forum to help organize information, resources, and strategies used across teams. You can participate in the forum as a guest, or sign up as a member. Within the Discussion Forum are specific board topics:
On September 14, our guest speaker will be Stacy L. Smith, M.Ed., LCMHC, member of MINT, Consultant & Clinical Instructor for the Institute for Best Practices, UNC CECMH. She will present "Leaning into Supervision (during a Pandemic)." We understand that providing regular, planned staff supervision can be a challenge. This brief presentation will introduce ideas about how to prepare yourself to supervise, what supervision theories you can draw upon and how to have difficult conversations with staff you supervise. There will be 10 minutes or so at the end for questions and conversation.
Maria Monroe-DeVita or Lorna Moser, PhD, Director of the UNC ACT Technical Assistance Center in the UNC Department of Psychiatry’s Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health; and Coordinator of the North Carolina ACT Coalition.
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