UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health

09/08/2025

ACT Consultant and Trainer with the Institute for Best Practices. Stephen has been working with people challenged by severe and persistent mental illness since 2001, working in several states, including Illinois, Ohio, and North Carolina. Stephen has extensive experience with ACT implementation, including developing two high-fidelity ACT teams from the ground up, and rebuilding five previously struggling ACT teams.... You can read more about him and other Institute staff here: https://www.med.unc.edu/.../unc-institute-for-best.../staff/

08/28/2025

The Institute for Best Practices offers a list of Career Opportunities for positions across the country. ACT Team Lead and FACT Mental Health Professional are just two of the jobs currently available. Please visit the link below for more information or to submit a position: https://www.med.unc.edu/psych/cecmh/unc-institute-for-best-practices/careers/.

08/18/2025

Brushes with Life Annual Art Show
October 30, 2025 | 5:00-8:00pm
UNC Neuroscience Hospital, Chapel Hill

Art Submission Deadline: Friday, September 19, 2025

For more information about Brushes with Life, visit: go.unc.edu/brusheswithlife

08/18/2025

Stacy L. Smith is an ACT Consultant and Trainer Program Manager with the Institute for Best Practices as well as the Co-Coordinator of the North Carolina ACT Coalition, a grassroots provider learning collaborative. Stacy has more than 25 years of experience in North Carolina mental health services, working with both adults and children in a variety of settings. You can read more about her and other Institute staff here: https://www.med.unc.edu/psych/cecmh/unc-institute-for-best-practices/staff/

08/13/2025

Want to learn more about assertive community treatment (ACT) at your own pace? Check out this free 2-hour ACT primer that walks you through the history of ACT (Module 1), the key ingredients of the model while following the stories of three ACT service recipients (Module 2), and an overview of ACT research and program fidelity (Module 3).

CECMH's Institute for Best Practices' Director, Lorna Moser, Ph.D., teamed up with Maria Monroe-DeVita, Ph.D. (UW Washington) to create this SAMHSA-funded recording, which was released three years ago today.

To access, register for free on HealtheKnowledge and search “Introduction to Assertive Community Treatment.”

HealtheKnowledge.org resulted from the need for a one-stop shop for health-related information and resources on the web. The courses provided on this site cover a variety of health-related topics relevant for today's professional.HealtheKnowledge.org is managed by The Collaborative to Advance Health...

08/04/2025

Lorna L. Moser, Ph.D. is the Director of the Institute for Best Practices and is a licensed psychologist with specialized training in psychiatric rehabilitation and mental health services research. She is the co-developer of the Tool for Measurement of ACT (TMACT), a nationally recognized contemporary measure of ACT fidelity, and web-based software eTMACT. She is a published Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) researcher and recipient of several awards and honors, including the Carol Mowbray Early Career Research Award from the Psychiatric Research Association. You can read more about her and other Institute staff here: https://www.med.unc.edu/psych/cecmh/education-and-training/unc-institute-for-best-practices/staff/

07/30/2025

07/29/2025

We're hiring!

The Institute for Best Practices within CECMH will be hiring THREE individuals to join our team. These individuals will be taking a lead role in conducting fidelity evaluations of North Carolina ACT teams across the state using the TMACT.

We prefer individuals with experience providing ACT services or related community mental health services.

Strong interest in those who have training and experience in using the TMACT. Strong oral and written communication skills are required, as well as critical thinking skills.

Remote work office is acceptable, but with periodic expectations of Institute meeting participation in Carrboro/Chapel Hill.

Travel across our beautiful state will be an inherent part of this job. Many opportunities to grow as part of this dynamic team of evaluators/consultants/trainers working in support of evidence-based community mental health and employment services.

https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/304283

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07/08/2025

Brushes with Life Annual Art Show

October 30, 2025 | 5:00-8:00pm
UNC Neuroscience Hospital, Chapel Hill

For more information about Brushes with Life, visit: go.unc.edu/brusheswithlife

06/30/2025

This month, the CECMH Institute for Best Practices' Penny Liles & Ariel Reynolds spent the day in Washington, DC at the National APSE Conference (Association of People Supporting Employment).

Ariel and Penny are senior consultants and trainers within the Institute who provide support to individual placement and support (IPS) supported employment teams across North Carolina, as well as offer a range of supports to assertive community treatment (ACT) and other community-based services in North Carolina and abroad.

06/30/2025

Last week, Lorna Moser, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the CECMH Institute for Best Practices, participated in the European Conference on Integrated Care and Assertive Outreach in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dr. Moser and her colleagues from the University of Washington and University of Wisconsin presented findings from the National ACT Study. Funded by Arnold Ventures, this is the largest descriptive study of assertive community treatment (ACT) ever conducted and shows the wide range of ACT implementation across the United States.

Dr. Moser also participated in a panel discussion with other ACT leaders to discuss ACT and flexible ACT (FACT) implementation across countries. As a founding member of Global Assertive Community Treatment Association (GACTA), Dr. Moser and international colleagues hope to continue to learn from one another to enhance the care for those individuals with more severe mental illness wanting to live life in integrated community settings.

01/16/2025

We are seeking a full-time Licensed Therapist to join our amazing STEP Carr Mill Team!
Apply Today! https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/294912