Assertive Community Treatment
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services are high-intensity community mental health services provided by a multi-disciplinary team with cultural competence and trauma-informed care. Individuals served in ACT are often able to decrease reliance on emergency services and institutional placement as a direct result of the attentive care given by the ACT team. Access to ACT staff is offered 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, including a 24-hour on-call person to assist with any potential crises. Additionally, ACT is truly a wrap-around approach to treatment with ACT clients being provided all of the ACT services within their own residence and or community-based setting. This unique approach decreases any potential barriers to the access of care and thus increases the client’s ability to have positive outcomes with continuous, uninterrupted care.
The ACT team provides services to clients with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and or co-occurring disorders (i.e., bipolar disorder with alcohol abuse, cannabis use, amphetamine use, etc.). To give the true wrap-around care approach to treatment, all of ACT services are delivered using a multi-disciplinary team. The ACT team includes a psychiatric medication provider, psychiatric nurse, master's level mental health clinician, case manager and or community support specialist, substance abuse specialist, and a peer support specialist.
Examples of ACT services provided include but are not limited to: daily medication monitoring (assisting in set up of medication in medication cassettes, monitoring of medications taken daily, monitoring of amount of medication amounts, etc.), medication management- prescriptions/communication with pharmacy/blood level monitoring, weekly mental health counseling services including individual, couple’s family, and or group counseling, assistance with daily living skills such as home cleaning/food prep/grocery shopping/laundry/etc., housing support-assistance with communicating with landlords & state assistance programs, financial management, transportation to and from medical appointments/food shelters/group therapy/pharmacy/etc., collaboration of care with the client’s current medical providers and or any other formal or informal supports, vocational rehabilitation to help ACT clients find and or maintaining employment, etc.
To receive ACT services, please see the referral criteria and forms. Email completed forms to referral@pamhc.org
