oregon center of excellence for assertive community treatment

Senior Director of Centers of Excellence (OCEACT & OSECE)

Email: [email protected]: 541-507-7125

Heidi Herinckx joined Options for Southern Oregon in July 2013 and serves as the Director for Research and Evaluation as well as the Director of Centers of Excellence (OCEACT & OSECE). Heidi has over 20 years experience helping mental health programs implement and evaluate evidence based practices.

Prior to joining Options, Heidi was a mental health services researcher at the Regional Research Institute at Portland State University for 18 years. Heidi has worked with a number of mental health and social service agencies in Oregon and Washington with the primary goal of advancing and improving mental health care and community-based services. Heidi’s areas of expertise include Assertive Community Treatment, Strengths case management, supported employment, the Matrix model for methamphetamine addiction, mental health court and therapeutic jurisprudence, peer providers and person-centered service design.

Over the past 20 years, Heidi has implemented and evaluated ACT programs in Oregon and Washington. Heidi was the project manager for this randomized clinical trial that compared the effectiveness of consumer providers of ACT, non-consumer providers of ACT, and “ mental health services as usual.” From 2004 through 2008, Heidi helped implement and evaluate the COMET program in Clark County Washington and the MERIT program in Josephine County Oregon.  The COMET Program was an ACT team that combined the MATRIX model to treat individuals with serious mental illness and a co-occurring methamphetamine addiction.