ACT | Implementation Guide
This 4-page booklet helps organizations implement Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), the evidence-based
practice. ACT improves outcomes for people with severe mental illness who are most at-risk of homelessness, psychiatric crisis and hospitalization, and involvement in the criminal justice system. This document is organized as a checklist of activities in 5 stages of change and implementation:
- Pre-Contemplation / Unaware or uninterested
- Contemplation / Consensus building
- Preparation / Motivating
- Action / Implementing
- Maintenance / Sustaining
PRODUCT SPECS
- 8.5 x 11" booklet
- 4 pages
- 5 states of implementation
- Checklist of implementation activities
- Free PDF (see "Free Downloads" in right column)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This booklet was developed by our Center's Ohio Assertive Community Treatment Coordinating Center of Excellence (ACT CCOE) initiative with support from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS).
MORE INFORMATION
To learn more abut Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and our consulting and training services for ACT implementation, visit the "practices" section of our website.
| learn more |
CITATION
Title: ACT | Implementation Guide
Author(s): Center for Evidence-Based Practices
Publication Year: 2015
Volume #: August
Publisher City: Cleveland
Publisher Name: Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University
RELATED RESOURCES
RELATED STORIES