Assertive Community
Treatment (ACT)

Recovery-based Mental Health Support Services

ACT Program | Outcome | Enroll

ACT Program

Services offered by ACT Teams are provided in an outreach fashion to individuals in their natural environments by staff who are trained in professions such as social work, counseling, psychology, occupational therapy, nursing, psychiatry, and peer staff. ACT Teams accept clinical responsibility for being the primary source of service for enrolled consumers. Services are comprehensive, highly individualized, and are available on a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week basis.

ACT consumers are actively involved in planning their treatment and reaching their personal goals. Services vary in intensity and may include multiple contacts with ACT Team staff on a daily or weekly basis. Services ACT teams can provide include:

• team treatment with a shared caseload
• psychiatric services
• medication assistance and monitoring
• assistance meeting basic needs such as food, laundry, personal hygiene, obtaining clothing, or transportation
• case management services including linking, monitoring, advocacy, and providing assistance in applying for benefits, plus completion of assessments, person-centered plans, and all other documents needed
• nursing services such as assessment, consultation, medication monitoring and/or injections, and coordination with other health care professionals
• finding and maintaining housing
• crisis services provided by team staff
• social activities
• coordination with family and friends
• budgeting, including payee services, if needed
• vocational services such as job placement and coaching, education or volunteer placements
• group and individual therapy for persons with co-occurring substance use disorders
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for individuals with emotion regulation disorders
• other supportive counseling as needed
• support and liaison services for individuals who are hospitalized or incarcerated
• support from peer staff
• Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment (IDDT)

Outcomes

ACT utilizes assertive outreach, flexibility and creativity to establish productive relationships with consumers. Staff encourage people to be partners in understanding their illnesses and to maximize their recovery. ACT services can help individuals achieve overall improved functioning in the community.

• In addition to helping people meet their personal goals, specific program wide outcomes include:
• reduction of need for psychiatric hospitalization
• increased involvement in vocationally directed activities
• maintained or achieved living in independent housing of their choosing
• high rate of satisfaction with services

How To Enroll

Referrals and authorizations for payment for ACT services may be obtained by calling the Kalamazoo Community Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services (KCMHSAS) Access Center at (269) 373-6000.

For more information about ACT or other services provided by the agency, contact InterAct between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
a program of
InterAct of Michigan, Inc.
610 South Burdick Street
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007
(269) 381-3700

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