Team Leaders Making a Difference! Conversations on Leadership and Supervision in ACT

Northwest MHTTC is pleased to partner with Great Lakes MHTTC to deliver ACT-related resources and training to Region 10 Assertive Community Treatment Team Leaders and other supervisors of multi-disciplinary mental health treatment teams serving a high-needs population group.

WEBINARS

• View Recording and Access Resources: December 3, 2020: The Pivotal Role of Team Leaders: What We Know!
• View Recording and Access Resources: February 8, 2021: “We are not going to fail”: ACT Team Leaders Focus on Team Well-Being
• View Recording and Access Resources: May 27, 2021: Keeping Our ACT Together: Team Leader Challenges & Strategies in Sustaining ACT
• View Recording and Access Resources: July 21, 2021: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

LISTENING SESSIONS

• January 21, 2021: Listening Session for Washington State and Idaho ACT Team Leaders
• May 11, 2021: Listening Session for Alaska and Oregon ACT Team Leaders

TIP SHEET

• The Importance of the Team Leader in the Implementation of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT). This tipsheet provides a top ten list of tips for supporting the successful implementation of ACT services. This tipsheet is based on input gathered from ACT team leaders currently working in the field. 

PRESENTERS

Lynette M. Studer, PhD, MSW, LCSW is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work. She teaches MSW students in a mental health field unit as well as classes on Mental Health Policies & Services and Advanced Practice Skills in Mental Health. Prior to joining the UW-Madison faculty, she held a position as both an Agency Policy Specialist and State Administrator with the State of Minnesota Department of Human Services, Chemical and Mental Health Administration overseeing and improving policy and the provision of technical assistance for the state’s 32 Assertive Community Treatment teams who serve individuals with serious mental illness. Dr. Studer holds clinical social work licenses in both Wisconsin and Minnesota and has been a practicing clinical social worker for over 20 years.

Mimi Choy-Brown, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Informed by over a decade of practice and leadership in community mental health services, her research focuses on improving access to high quality mental health services for individuals who experience significant psychiatric disabilities and supervision-focused strategies to improve the implementation of recovery-oriented, evidence-based practices in routine care. She received her PhD from NYU and her MSW from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.

Maria Monroe-DeVita, PhD, is an Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, School of Medicine, and the Director of the Washington State Center of Excellence in First Episode Psychosis. Her expertise is in implementation and services research related to evidence-based practices for adults with serious mental illness, particularly the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model. She has served as the Principal Investigator on several projects with the Washington State Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery, including the development, implementation, and fidelity assessment of 10 new ACT teams, and several Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) and Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment (IDDT) pilots across the state. She is also in the process of developing and testing novel approaches to better serving people with serious mental illness. She received a collaborative R34 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to develop and pilot-test the integration of IMR within ACT teams and is working to better define and implement integrated primary care services within ACT. She is also the lead author of the new ACT fidelity tool – the Tool for Measurement of Assertive Community Treatment (TMACT) – which has been disseminated and pilot-tested in several U.S. states and countries.

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