Community-Based Positive Support Modules The modules in this section provide information about how positive supports work and focus on one type of practice: positive behavior support or PBS. These modules can be a helpful way to learn more about supporting people who might experience challenges in everyday life and/or when transitioning back into the community […]
Standards of Practice: Positive Behavior Support Across the Lifespan The MNPBS Network has finished the Minnesota Standards of Practice! Minnesota Standards of Practice Monograph This is considered version 1.0. We welcome your guidance and feedback for future updates. Email mnpbsnetwork@gmail.com to provide your review. Please visit the Standards page to see the organization and the […]
This glossary contains the definitions of all the terms presented in the HCBS and Community-based supports modules in one place. For more description and information, check out the modules in the Team Training section of the website. ABC Chart: A tool used in Functional Behavioral Assessment or FBA that records information while observing behavior that […]
This brief provides an overview of Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT)—an intensive service delivery model intended for people with serious mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system.
Objective: Team design is meticulously specified for assertive community treatment (ACT) teams, yet performance can vary across ACT teams, even those with high fidelity. By developing and validating the Teamwork in Assertive Community Treatment (TACT) scale, investigators examined the role of team processes in ACT performance.
A number of second and third generation studies have shown that ACT programs have not achieved a similar degree of positive outcomes as the original PACT research. Typically lack of strong fidelity to the ACT model is the demonstrated contributor to poorer results. Therefore, this new version of the National Program Standards for ACT Teams not only provides minimum standards for program operation but it also provides brief descriptions of the rationale for many of the ACT requirements which have been difficult for providers and administrators to understand and implement.
2019 MNPBS Gathering Materials Keynote Speaker The keynote speaker for the 2019 Collaborators Forum is Caryn Ward, PhD, HSP-P. Dr. Ward is the Associate Director for Education and Measurement of the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. At NIRN, she is the Director of the […]
