24 Miss. Code. R. 2-32.1 - Service Components of Programs of Assertive Community Treatment For Adults
A. A Program of
Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) is a person-centered, recovery-oriented
mental health service delivery model for facilitating community living,
psychological rehabilitation, and recovery for people who have the most severe
and persistent mental illnesses, have severe symptoms and impairments, and have
not benefited from traditional outpatient services.
B. The important characteristics of PACT are:
1. Programs of Assertive Community Treatment
serve people who may have gone without appropriate services. Consequently, the
group is often overrepresented among people experiencing homelessness and in
jails and prisons and has been unfairly thought to resist or avoid involvement
in treatment.
2. Programs of
Assertive Community Treatment Services are delivered by a group of
multidisciplinary mental health personnel who work as a team and provide the
majority of the treatment, rehabilitation, and support services people need to
achieve their goals. Many, if not all, employees share responsibility for
addressing the needs of all people requiring frequent contact.
3. Programs of Assertive Community Treatment
Services are individually tailored to each person and address the preferences
and identified goals of each person. The approach with each person emphasizes
relationship building and active involvement in assisting people with severe
and persistent mental illness to make improvements in functioning, to manage
symptoms better, to achieve individual goals, and to maintain
optimism.
4. The PACT Team is
mobile and delivers services in community locations to enable each person to
find and live in their own residence and, find and maintain work in community
jobs rather than expecting the person to come to the service.
5. PACT Services are delivered in an ongoing,
rather than time-limited, framework to aid the process of recovery and ensure
continuity of care. Severe and persistent mental illnesses are episodic
disorders, and many people benefit from the availability of a longer-term
treatment approach and continuity of care. This allows people the opportunity
to decompensate, consolidate gains, sometimes regress, and then take the next
steps forward until they achieve recovery.
6. The PACT Team must have a system for
regular review of the service that is designed to evaluate the appropriateness
of admissions to the program, treatment or service plans, discharge practices,
and other factors that may contribute to the effective use of the service's
resources.
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