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
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Lori Wagar
Lori has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Psychology, Behavioural Neuroscience from the University of Waterloo. Lori joined the ACT-AP team in July 2022 for an 18-month secondment from Island Health, where she was the ACT Evaluation Lead since April 2021.
Prior to her work at Island Health, Lori worked as an independent consultant on over 20 evaluation projects in health and social development since 2013. Most recently, Lori developed and implemented a needs assessment and evaluation process for the Shared Care Spread Networks, coordinating information gathering across over 40 community projects in the areas of maternity, chronic pain and adult mental health and substance use. Other relevant projects include evaluating four rural overdose prevention sites in Island Health, projects on numerous topics for the Divisions of Family Practice and Doctors of BC and authoring a recommendations report on patient-centred measurement for the Ministry of Health.
Lori has a strong interest in capturing and using the best available evidence to ensure sustainable high-quality, publicly funded programs and services are available for those who need them the most.