ACT

Assertive Community Treatment

What is it?

The Child & Family ACT team, made up of psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and employment specialists works to help keep adults living with serious mental illness out of area psychiatric hospitals and stable in their homes.

The ACT team offers assistance with trauma, housing, medication management, social and coping skills training, employment, overcoming mental illness stigma, Social Security income applications, independent living skills, etc.

Who is it For?

For eligibility for services, each individual should meet the following criteria:

  • Age 18+

  • Have a serious mental illness diagnosis

An individual seeking ACT services must also meet one of the following criteria:

  • 2 psychiatric hospitalizations in the past 90 days (6 months)

  • 4 psychiatric hospitalizations in the past 2 years

  • 1 psychiatric hospitalization of greater than 30 days' duration within the past 2 years

ACT Services

 

This service model allows Child & Family to maintain ACT program goals to:

  • Lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness

  • Improve functioning in adult social and employment roles

  • Enhance individual's ability to live independently in his or her own community

  • Lessen family's burden of providing care

Services are provided in Dallas & Waxahachie. Services provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - in the comfort of individual's own home and community.

Additional Act Services

  • Support, education, and skills training for family members

  • Direct support to clients to obtain legal and advocacy services, financial support and money management services, supported housing, and transportation