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Providing Services Utilizing an ACT Model

Services Provided

What Makes this Model Difficult?

What makes this Model Successful?

Trained Peer Support

EMPHASIS ON VOCATIONAL EXPECTATIONS

Peer support specialists can help a person with a mental illness navigate the system because they are successfully navigating it themselves.

  • Share offices
  • Interchangeable Roles
  • Stressful
  • High Turnover

The team encourages all clients to participate in community employment and provides many vocational rehabilitation services directly.

ASSERTIVE APPROACH

ATTENTION TO HEALTH CARE NEEDS

Model pro-active behaviors assisting people to participate in & continue treatment, live independently, and recover from disability.

The ACT team provides health education, access, and coordination of health care services.

  • Multidisciplinary
  • Small client to staff ratio
  • Provide most services
  • Minimal referrals to other mental health programs or providers.
  • Highly Individualized

What is a peer support Specialist?

Individualized Services

PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL SERVICES:

COMMUNITY INTEGRATION

Treatment plans, developed with the client, are based on individual strengths and needs, hopes and desires. The plans are modified as needed through an ongoing assessment and goal setting process.

Staff work with clients & their family members to become collaborative partners in the treatment process.

Clients are taught about mental illness and the skills needed to better manage their illnesses and their lives.

ACT staff help clients become less socially isolated and more integrated into the community by encouraging participation in community activities and membership in organizations of their choice.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES:

FAMILY SUPPORT & EDUCATION

The team coordinates &

provides

substance abuse services

With the active involvement of the client, ACT staff work to include the client's natural support systems (family, significant others) in treatment, educating them and including them as part of the ACT services. It is often necessary to help improve family relationships in order to reduce conflicts and increase client autonomy.

Professionals Involved

  • Social Worker
  • Rehabilitation Counselor
  • Counselor
  • Nurse
  • Psychiatrist
  • Peer Support Specialist

LONG-TERM SERVICES

ACT

Intended to be long-term due to the severe impairments often associated with serious and persistent

mental illness.

The process of recovery often

takes many years.

When are Services Available?

Assertive Community Treatment

24/7

In San Diego

Where are

Services Provided?

  • Telecare
  • ACT
  • Downtown IMPACT
  • "Wrap-Around"

Who Invented it?

Provide services and supports critical to an individual's ability to live successfully in the community

In the community!

The ACT model of care evolved out of the work of Arnold Marx, M.D., Leonard Stein, and Mary Ann Test, Ph.D., in the late 1960s.

By Sarah Hancock, MS

Sept. 16, 2014

http://www.actassociation.org/actModel/

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