Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

ACT is a highly effective community-based treatment to help adults with severe and persistent mental illness live their healthiest lives. Utilizing intensive nonresidential treatment and rehabilitative mental health services, clients work to become independent and integrate into the community as they experience recovery. All areas of well-being are a part of an individual’s treatment plan to reduce the preventable outcomes of mental illness, such as homelessness and substance abuse.

Treatment plans center around a client’s strengths, needs, and aspirations for the future. Comprehensive services offered by ACT can include planning and monitoring treatment, accompanying clients to doctor and dental appointments, assisting with applications, and teaching daily living skills such as cooking, housekeeping, managing money, and finding transportation. Other interventions can include supported employment, co-occurring disorders treatment, and psychoeducation for clients and their families.

ACT uses highly skilled multi-disciplinary teams that have relatively small caseloads. These teams provide long-term, personalized, and continuous care customized to an individual’s needs. Staff is available to respond 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Qualifications for Services

Admittance into the program for individuals is made promptly through a team decision-making process, with input from the clinical supervisor and a psychiatrist. The length of the waiting list can affect acceptance into ACT.

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