Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

In addition to being 18+ and having a serious mental illness diagnosis, an individual seeking ACT services must also meet one of the following criteria:

  • 2 psychiatric hospitalizations in the past 90 days (6 months)

  • 4 psychiatric hospitalizations in the past 2 years

  • 1 psychiatric hospitalization of longer than 30 days' duration within the past 2 years

The Child & Family ACT team, made up of psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and employment specialists works to help keep adults living with serious mental illness out of area psychiatric hospitals and stable in their homes.
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The ACT team offers assistance with trauma, housing, medication management, social and coping skills training, employment, overcoming mental illness stigma, Social Security income applications, independent living skills, etc.

The ACT team meets monthly with clients in their home, amounting to about 2.5 hours per week. These individualized sessions keep clients on track during their treatment course.

This service model allows Child & Family to maintain ACT program goals to: 

  • Lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness

  • Improve functioning in adult social and employment roles

  • Enhance individual's ability to live independently in his or her own community

  • Lessen family's burden of providing care