Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program is an innovative, recovery-oriented, “best practice” intervention that delivers comprehensive mental health treatment to individuals who have a mental illness that seriously impairs their functioning in the community.
Designed to serve individuals whose needs have not been met by traditional clinic-based approaches, ACT is a mobile interdisciplinary team of professionals (psychiatry, nursing, social work, rehabilitation) and peers that deliver treatment to people in their homes, shelters, parks, and anywhere else they happen to be living, engaging them in a sustained relationship that will lead towards recovery.
For most ACT participants, stability involves finding and keeping housing, avoiding relapse and hospitalization, obtaining and maintaining a stable source of income and learning to manage their mental illness, physical health, as well as any other co-occurring disability.