The Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) helps people with complex, long-term and serious psychiatric illness involving multiple hospitalizations of a minimum of 50 days in past year or 150 days over 3 years. An individual, the family or the current service provider can make referrals. A central intake team reviews referrals for all Ottawa area ACTT. A client assessment will be done to determine eligibility for ACTT services.
Services include:
• Identify and achieve individual goals (such as life skills, vocational, education, financial, recreation, etc)
• After hours emergency services for clients in the service
• Symptom assessment, management and education
• Supportive counselling
• Medication education, prescription administration and monitoring