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Collaborative Team-Based Care in ACT and FACT
Collaborative interprofessional teamwork is the cornerstone of effective service delivery on ACT and FACT teams. In this training, we will define interprofessional, transdisciplinary approaches to healthcare and discuss how these approaches differ from interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary team approaches. We will discuss key features of transdisciplinary teamwork on ACT and FACT teams and guidelines for facilitating effective team collaboration through daily team meetings. We will also review characteristics of teamwork that promote provider wellbeing and facilitate the successful implementation of evidence-based practices within healthcare teams.
The Multidisciplinary Team: Foundational Infrastructure for ACT and FACT
In Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT), assembling a multidisciplinary treatment team is essential for navigating public service systems and effectively addressing the complex constellation of social, economic, mental health, and physical health needs of the populations of focus. This training will review provider role types needed to implement an evidence-informed ACT or FACT team configuration. We will orient participants to the scope of work and role expectations for each provider type within the ACT or FACT team, as well as ...
Core Components of the ACT Service Model: Setting the Foundation for Fidelity
This training module explains the service model features that are foundational for Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams to adopt in the initial stages of ACT/FACT implementation. The session describes the key structural and clinical elements of ACT that are essential to put in place early in the implementation process as teams move toward delivering the full ACT model in accordance with evidence-based guidelines. It also describes the processes and resources that will be used by California's ACT/FACT Center of Excellence, the Public Mental Health Partnership ...
Organizational Readiness for Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): Predictors of Implementation Success
This training will identify key organizational factors that support the implementation of new programs and practices in mental health. Using various implementation theories and frameworks, this training will define organizational readiness for change within the context of implementing Assertive Community Treatment. Relevant factors that predict successful program implementation will be discussed, such as organizational culture, teamwork, communication, and leadership support. This training will highlight tangible strategies organizations can use to improve functioning and maximize these readiness factors. Gaining an understanding of these factors and strategies ...
Outreach and Engagement in ACT and FACT: A Persistent and Committed Approach
In Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT), effective outreach and engagement approaches are essential for supporting clients who are navigating serious mental illness (SMI) and significant vulnerabilities such as homelessness, justice involvement, and mental health guardianship. This training will introduce assertive outreach and engagement practices as cornerstones of recovery-oriented, evidence-based mental health service delivery. This training will outline person-centered frameworks (e.g., stages of change) that can aid providers in navigating both the initial outreach process and ongoing engagement of clients enrolled in ACT and FACT services. This training will discuss important considerations for clinicians related to client self-determination (Carrara, 2025) while ...
Assertive Community Treatment: Outpatient Management of Psychosis in the Era of Deinstitutionalization
This training will review the history of assertive community treatment (ACT) as well as discuss the origin of the ACT approach, describe key findings from studies that have examined its effectiveness, and explore its impact in different contexts. The training will provide an overview of fidelity scales used to assess whether ACT programs are operating as intended. It will focus on the relevance of ACT adaptations, like Full Service Partnerships, in serving clients who can benefit from interventions like ACT that are assertive, intensive, and ...
Sensitizing Providers to the Effects of Incarceration on Treatment
This training explores the culture of incarceration and how it can impact a client’s ability to adjust to a community behavioral health setting. It is designed to help sensitize providers to the reentry experience and provide strategies to engage and support clients through this vulnerable time. First, the training will outline the informal and formal codes of conduct imposed upon incarcerated people, helping providers to understand the rules of behavior imposed by other inmates (don’t snitch, never show weakness, trust no one, mind your own ...
Reducing Recidivism and Promoting Recovery: Understanding and Addressing the Factors that Contribute to Re-arrest
This training will explore the dynamic and static risk factors associated with re-incarceration and the ways that providers can intervene to help clients achieve successful outcomes. The class will begin with an overview of the current evidence-based paradigm for assessing and working with clients to reduce their risk for re-arrest (Risk-Need-Responsivity). Through interactive exercises and didactic lecture, participants will learn to expand their thinking about how to work with justice-involved clients with mental illness in ways that support recovery, mitigate the risk or re-arrest and ...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp): Introduction and Practical Applications
The utilization of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for the treatment of psychosis is becoming more integrated into mental health care. This training will focus on the symptomatology associated with the experience of psychosis, interventions that emphasize the core practices of CBT, and also third-wave CBT techniques for those with severe and persistent mental illness.
Cross-Systems Collaboration: Supporting Mandated Clients
This training provides an overview of diversion and community supervision and the role that behavioral health providers can play in supporting clients who are mandated to treatment by the court, or as a condition of probation or parole. First, we will outline the processes involved in diversion and the requirements/mandates that are often imposed upon clients who participate in “alternative to incarceration” programs. In addition, we will examine the systems of probation and parole, and the requirements that these systems impose on clients. Whether mandated ...
