Definition:
Areas in which ACT teams provide assistance :
Daily Living:
- Grocery Shopping and Cooking
- Purchasing and Caring for Clothing
- Using transportation
- Social and family relationships
Family Life:
- Crisis management
- Counseling and psychoeducation for family members
- Coordination with child welfare and family service agencies
- Supporting people in carrying out their roles as parents
Housing Assistance:
- Finding suitable housing
- Helping negotiate leases and pay rent
- Purchasing and repairing household items
- Developing relationships with landlords
- Improving housekeeping skills
Financial Management:
- Planning a budget
- Troubleshooting financial problems e.g., disability payments
- Assisting with bills
- Increasing independence in money management
Counseling:
- Oriented toward problem solving and built into all activities
- Goals addressed by all team members
- Includes development of illness management skills Health
- Education to prevent health problems
- Medical screening
- Scheduling routine visits
- Linking people with medical providers for acute care
- Sex education and counseling on reproductive health
Medication Support:
- Ordering medications from pharmacies
- Delivering medications, if needed
- Educating consumers about medications
- Reminding individuals to take medications
- Monitoring side effects
Employment:
- Work opportunities
- Educating employers about serious mental illness
- Help preparing for employment
- Help finding and keeping employment
- Employment support
Entitlements:
- Assisting with applications
- Accompanying consumers to entitlement offices
- Managing food stamps if needed
- Assisting with redetermination of benefits Substance Abuse Treatment
- Substance abuse treatment provided by the team