The Assertive Community Treatment Team serves individuals in their late teens to their elderly years that have a severe and persistent mental illness. ACTT uses a team approach to be available 24/7 with rapid response to calls, while working with individuals in their home, at school or at work. ACTT strives to lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of the mental illness each client experiences and to minimize or prevent recurrent episodes of the illness, to meet basic needs and enhance quality of life, to improve functioning in adult, social and employment roles, to make them capable of living independently in their own community and to lessen the family’s burden of providing care. The main goal of this intensive service is to help individuals remain out of the hospital and living in the community.
