24 Miss. Code. R. 2-32.7 - Program of Assertive Community Treatment's Contacts
A. The PACT Team must have the capacity to
provide multiple contacts during a week with people experiencing severe
symptoms, trying a new medication, experiencing a health problem or serious
life event, trying to go back to school or starting a new job, making changes
in their living situation or employment, or having significant ongoing problems
in daily living. These multiple contacts must be a minimum of two (2) times per
week (60 minutes per contact) and depend on individual need and a mutually
agreed upon plan between people and agency provider employees. Many, if not
all, team members must share responsibility for addressing the needs of all
people requiring frequent contact.
B. The PACT Team must have the capacity to
rapidly increase service intensity to a person when their status requires it,
or a person requests it.
C. The
PACT Team must provide a mean (i.e., average) of at least two (2) contacts per
week (60 minutes per contact) for all people.
D. Each new PACT Team must gradually build up
its caseload with a maximum admission rate of five (5) people per
month.
E. PACT services must be
provided 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week. This requirement does not
include the following: mobile crisis response, community support services only,
or an on-call MOU; PACT must have face-to-face staff on the weekends.
F. Each PACT Team must set a goal of
providing eighty percent (80%) of service contacts in the community in
non-office-based or non-facility-based settings.
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