Post by chrismccainuw on Mar 27, 2020 12:31:57 GMT -8
Hi everyone,
To start things off, I just wanted to capture what has been said already by Lorna and Maria in the National ACT COVID-19 Response Calls: protecting your and your clients' safety by appropriately responding to the COVID-19 outbreak takes precedence over trying to meet fidelity standards. It is completely understandable that, as agencies shut down and more and more teams limit services, some items, such as those counting frequency of contact with clients, will score lower.
The TMACT was developed to describe what evidence-based ACT looks like under ideal (or at least under typical) circumstances, and a pandemic of a novel coronavirus is not typical. This will likely be taken into consideration during your next fidelity review. Continue to follow federal, state, and agency guidance on how to protect yourselves and your clients. That being said, fidelity standards can be a good place to return to in order to remind yourself of the ideal range of services offered by ACT as you think about creative ways of continuing care amidst this crisis. Additionally, this is an opportunity to think about how fidelity standards can be expanded to consider non-ideal situations (i.e., what does high quality, "Pandemic ACT" look like?).
Hang in there, and feel free to post any questions or suggestions!
To start things off, I just wanted to capture what has been said already by Lorna and Maria in the National ACT COVID-19 Response Calls: protecting your and your clients' safety by appropriately responding to the COVID-19 outbreak takes precedence over trying to meet fidelity standards. It is completely understandable that, as agencies shut down and more and more teams limit services, some items, such as those counting frequency of contact with clients, will score lower.
The TMACT was developed to describe what evidence-based ACT looks like under ideal (or at least under typical) circumstances, and a pandemic of a novel coronavirus is not typical. This will likely be taken into consideration during your next fidelity review. Continue to follow federal, state, and agency guidance on how to protect yourselves and your clients. That being said, fidelity standards can be a good place to return to in order to remind yourself of the ideal range of services offered by ACT as you think about creative ways of continuing care amidst this crisis. Additionally, this is an opportunity to think about how fidelity standards can be expanded to consider non-ideal situations (i.e., what does high quality, "Pandemic ACT" look like?).
Hang in there, and feel free to post any questions or suggestions!