The Arc of Western Wayne County: Serving people with disabilities

The Take Charge Helpline

Assertive Community Treatment

Assertive Community Treatment, or ACT is a service delivery model that provides comprehensive, locally based treatment to people with serious and persistent mental illnesses.

ACT provides highly individualized services directly to consumers.  Case management services are interwoven with Treatment and Rehabilitative services that are based upon the principles of recovery and person-centered planning.  ACT provides multidisciplinary, around the clock staffing within the comfort of a person’s own home and community.  ACT team members are trained in the areas of psychiatry, social work, nursing, substance abuse and vocational rehabilitation, and provide necessary services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

ACT strives to lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness that each person experiences, and to minimize or prevent recurrent acute episodes of the illness, to meet basic needs and enhance quality of life, to improve functioning in adult social and employment roles, to enhance a person’s ability to live independently in their own community, and to lessen the family’s burden of providing care.

For more information, please contact The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Michigan at 800-331-4264, or visit them online at namimi.org.  You can also contact The Detroit Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency at 313-833-2500, or visit them online at www.dwccmha.com.

Phone code: 2202