National ACT Consultation Calls
National ACT Consultation Calls
The University of Washington SPIRIT Center and the Institute for Best Practices at the University of North Carolina co-facilitates a regular 90-minute consultation call with ACT teams and ACT stakeholders across the U.S. Each meeting consists of a mini-didactic training on a topic of relevance and interest to ACT teams, and opportunities to pose consultation questions and learn from and share experiences with ACT teams. Meetings will be held every other month, 12-1:30 pm Pacific/3:00-4:30 pm Eastern on the following Mondays in 2026: October 5th and December 7th. Register now!
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Leaders
Lorna Moser, PhD
Director of Institute for Best Practices, UNC Institute for Best Practices
Dr. Moser is the Director of the Institute for Best Practices in the UNC Department of Psychiatry’s Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health. She is the co-author of the Tool for Measurement of ACT (TMACT), a contemporary measure of ACT fidelity, and conducts research examining the facilitators and barriers to higher fidelity ACT implementation. She is currently leading the largest descriptive study of the status of ACT implementation across the U.S., funded by Arnold Ventures. Email: lorna_moser@med.unc.edu.
Maria Monroe-DeVita, PhD
Co-Director, UW SPIRIT Center | Director, Washington State Center of Excellence in First Episode Psychosis
Dr. Monroe-DeVita’s 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 is the lead author of the Tool for Measurement of Assertive Community Treatment (TMACT). Email: mmdv@uw.edu.