ACT Advanced Practice Project Team
The BC ACT Advanced Practice (ACT AP) hosts a provincial network of ACT service providers and leaders by providing capacity-building opportunities, supporting discipline specific Communities of Practice (CoP), and engaging disciplines in the development and refinement of tools that will support the provision of ACT in our province. The AP focuses on innovation in supporting the ACT client population, and developing methodology and pedagogy to augment the fidelity of ACT teams across BC.
The ACT AP provides core training, discipline specific training, implementation support and consultation to Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) providers across BC. Our education and training curriculum uses evidence-based practice standards and modifications to these standards as developed by subject matter experts to better address the nuanced needs of ACT clients. Training is delivered online (self-paced) and other distance-learning modalities.
For more information about BC ACT AP please contact us at BC.ACT.AP@vch.ca
Meet the BC ACT Advanced Practice Team
Dr. Daniel Vigo
Daniel is a clinical psychologist, a medical doctor, and a university specialist in psychiatry. He obtained a Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard University, as well as Post-Doctoral Research and Clinical Fellowships at Columbia University (NY, US) and the University of British Columbia. He has 20+ years of clinical and supervisory experience, focused on the treatment of the most severely affected clients in various settings, including outpatient and inpatient care, community recovery centres, and specialized concurrent disorders care. He led a collaboration with King’s College (UK) and Columbia University (US) to develop practice implementation guidelines for ACT in Argentina, where he was the Founding Director of the first Assertive Community Treatment Department, which he led for several years.
He currently heads the Mental Health Systems and Services Lab at UBC, holds faculty appointments at UBC’s Department of Psychiatry and School of Population and Public Health (as well as at Harvard Medical School), practices as an ACT Psychiatrist and is a Scientist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences at St. Paul’s Hospital. Daniel has worked closely with the BC Ministry of Health and Health Authorities on various strategic health systems initiatives and currently leads Health Canada-funded implementation and evaluation projects at the national level.