Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

ACT provides intensive long-term community-based case management services to adult consumers with the most serious forms of severe mental illness. ACT is a team approach. Although you have a primary case manager, all members of the ACT team will provide supports and services.

ACT team members provide home visits which vary from daily to weekly and change as your needs change. Visits may include education on mental illness, medication education, and monitoring for side effects and efficacy. In addition, the ACT team may link you to community resources to assist you in living independently within the community. After hours coverage includes crisis intervention and, if needed, medication monitoring to prevent hospitalization. As an ACT consumer, you may contact an ACT team worker 24 hours per day on any day.