This 90-minute virtual consultation call with ACT teams and ACT stakeholders consists of a mini-didactic training on a topic of relevance and interest to ACT teams, plus opportunities to pose consultation questions and learn from other ACT teams and their shared experiences within ACT.
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:
This June, Juli Templeton RN, BSN, QMHP, TTS & Heidi Herinckx, MA will provide an update on the creation of an ACT nurse onboard training curriculum created by the Oregon Center of Excellence for Assertive Community Treatment (OCEACT). ACT nurses from five states participated in an extensive DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process, to describe the core duties and tasks essential to the role of an ACT nurse. A recent publication on the DACUM results (Herinckx et al., 2024) outlines the DACUM process.
OCEACT is using the DACUM as a roadmap for developing a competency based onboarding curriculum. This presentation will describe the eight modules that are being developed and how OCEACT intends to provide the onboard training to newly hired ACT nurses statewide. OCEACT will describe the ACT nurse statewide trainer role and describe the onboard training all ACT nurses will receive in their first year of hire.
Maria Monroe-DeVita, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of the Washington State Center of Excellence in First Episode Psychosis or Lorna Moser, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Director of the Institute for Best Practice, Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health.
Lorna Moser, PhDDr. Lorna Moser is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the Director of the Institute for Best Practice, Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health.
Maria Monroe-DeVita, PhDDr. Monroe-DeVita is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Director, Washington State Center of Excellence in First Episode Psychosis.
