Assertive Community Treatment Teams

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a service model provided by community-based, mobile mental health treatment teams. The ACT team approach is designed to provide comprehensive psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation, and support to persons with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness, or personality disorders with severe functional impairments, to live independently in the community. Persons served by ACT often have co-existing problems such as homelessness, substance abuse, frequent hospitalization, and/or involvement with the judicial system.

Individuals typically served by ACT teams often have needs that have not been effectively addressed by traditional, less intensive services. Team members work with individuals in their homes, work setting, or places in the community where additional support might be needed.

MHR ACT teams follow the Minnesota Department of Human Services' expectations for fidelity standards regarding composition, enrollment, service population, and therapeutic services provided, including many evidence based practices such as Integrated Dual-Diagnosis Treatment (IDDT), Supported Employment, and Illness Management and Recovery (IM&R).

Our Ramsey, Hennepin and Dakota Counties ACT teams have been in operation since 2005.