The Institute for Best Practices is part of the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health within the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry. The formation of the Institute emerged from several sources...
We are working closely with the NC Department of Health and Human Services to help with high-fidelity implementation of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Individual Placement and Support Model of Supported Employment (IPS). ACT has been available in North Carolina for over 15 years, but there had not been routine fidelity monitoring. First-time implementation of IPS occurred in North Carolina in 2013.