Friday, May 3, 2024
5/3/2024
Adult & Child Mental Health Center proposes to expand on its current homelessness outreach and treatment services through the implementation of an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program. The ACT Team will focus exclusively on consumers with severe mental illness who are homeless by working alongside community homeless outreach providers to proactively engage and serve this population. The purpose of this project is to establish and maintain an ACT program for individuals with a serious mental illness (SMI). A&C expects this program will improve behavioral health outcomes for individuals by reducing rates of hospitalization, mortality, substance use, homelessness, and involvement with the criminal justice system. Activities of this program include but are not limited to the following: comprehensive assessment, crisis assessment and intervention illness management and recovery skills, individual supportive therapy, substance use disorder treatment, peer and family support, employment support services, assistance with activities of daily living, connection and intervention with support networks and recovery support services, care management and case coordination; and psychotropic medication for treatment of SMI and medication for other medical conditions prescription, administration, and monitoring. The ACT Team will serve 100 individuals annually for a project total of 200 clients. Of those consumers experiencing homelessness in the two years preceding ACT enrollment, 90% will be residing in permanent housing after two years of ACT services. ACT staff will provide intensive engagement, outreach, and services to enrolled consumers, as evidenced by consumers receiving on average 3 face to face contacts and 90 minutes of face to face contact per week. Of those consumers experiencing incarceration or arrest in the two years preceding ACT enrollment, 50% will experience a reduction in arrests for new charges after two years of ACT services. ACT substance abuse specialist will develop stage-wise dual disorders programming by the end of the second quarter of year one. Of those consumers experiencing a psychiatric hospitalization in the two years preceding ACT enrollment, 70% will experience a reduction in psychiatric hospitalizations after two years of ACT services.
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