Model
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) has been identified as an effective model for providing community-based services for persons whose needs have not been met through traditional office-based treatment.

The ACT multidisciplinary team approach assumes responsibility for directly providing acute, active, and ongoing community-based psychiatric treatment, assertive outreach, rehabilitation, and support.

Services are comprehensive and highly individualized, and are modified as needed through an ongoing assessment and treatment planning process.  Services vary in intensity based on the persons served.

Persons Served
The ACT program provides psychosocial and intensive case management services directed primarily to adults (18 years and older) with severe and persistent mental illness who have a high use history of State Operated Psychiatric Facilities (SOF).  They characteristically have frequent and repeated admissions with their stay at the SOF usually being for a prolonged period of time.

ACT clients often have co-occurring issues such as substance abuse, homelessness, legal issues, and/or lack of community and family support.

Treatment Team
A multidisciplinary treatment team consisting of a case-manager, a nurse, a psychiatrist, a substance abuse consultant, and a program coordinator provides ACT services.

Multiple members of the team are familiar with each person served to assure the timely and continuous provision of services.

The majority of services are provided directly by ACT team members with minimal referral to outside providers for the purpose of continuity of care.  The team members are available on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, basis.

Services
ACT clients require a well coordinated and integrated package of services provided over an extended period of time for them to live successfully in the community.  These services include, but are not limited to, the following:

*  Assessment and Service Planning
*  Counseling
*  Case Management Services
*  Rehabilitation Services
*  Substance Abuse Services
*  Psychiatric Services
*  Budgeting/Representative Payee Services
*  Support and Advocacy Services
*  Crisis Intervention Services

Outcomes
Desired outcomes specific to ACT services may include positive change in the following areas:

*  Community Tenure
*  Independent Living
*  Quality of Life
*  Consumer Satisfaction
*  Functioning Level (work and social domains)
*  Community Integration
*  Psychological Condition
*  Access to Health Care
*  Activities of Daily Living
*  Reduction in Hospitalization  

For more information about ACT, please contact us at (618)734-2665 or email us

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