Assertive Community Treatment

Assertive Community Treatment, or ACT is a team of medical, behavioral health, and rehabilitative professionals who use a team approach to meet the needs of an individual with severe and persistent mental illness. Admission criteria include severe and persistent mental illness, predominately Schizophrenia, and high service needs in order to maintain stability.

ACT consists of the following services: service coordination, psychiatric assessment and treatment, medication management, substance use services, counseling/therapy, vocational services, mental health support services, peer support, and representative payee services. ACT services are flexible and teams offer personalized levels of care for all individuals, adjusting service levels to reflect needs as they change over time.

The goal of ACT is to lessen or eliminate debilitating symptoms of mental illness each client experiences and to minimize or prevent recurrent episodes of illness, assist clients to meet basic needs and enhance their quality of life, improve functioning in adult social and employment roles and activities, increase stability in community, decrease hospitalizations, and lessen the family's burden of providing care.