Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a mental health program that focuses on individual clients and their recovery. The program facilitates community living, psychosocial rehabilitation, and recovery for persons who have the most serious mental illnesses.

• ACT serves clients with serious mental illnesses that are complex and who have very significant functional impairments
• ACT services are delivered by a group of mental health staff from a variety of disciplines, who work as a team and provide the majority of treatment services
• ACT services are individually tailored to the needs of each client
• ACT teams are mobile and deliver services in the community

Services Provided

Services may vary dependent on the community in which you live but can include

• Service coordination
• Crisis assessment and intervention
• Psychiatric/Psychological treatment and supports
• Psychiatric medication: prescription and management
• Services/supports for concurrent substance use disorder
• Work-related services
• Activities of daily living
• Social/interpersonal relationship and leisure-time skill training
• Peer support services
• Support services
• Family-centred services
• Healthy lifestyle choices
• Social/recreational/leisure