Lorna is the Director of the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Technical Assistance within the Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lorna's clinical training and experience primarily has been with adults with severe mental illness. She is a mental health services researcher and is the co-author of the Tool for Measurement of ACT (TMACT), a current, comprehensive, recovery-oriented measure of ACT program fidelity. She has evaluated and consulted with ACT teams, community mental health agencies, and governing mental health authorities across the United States and abroad.