The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program provides individualized comprehensive psychiatric and addiction medicine services, as well as coordinated care for primary care management of medical issues with nursing support for routine health maintenance.
Utilizing a mobile, trans-disciplinary team, our ACT program shares client caseloads and delivers services in the community, wherever a client needs them. ACT also provides individualized comprehensive psychiatric and addiction medicine services, as well as coordination for primary care management of medical issues with nursing support for routine health maintenance.
Our ACT team delivers services with compassion and care. Our person-centered approach reduces hospitalization and incarceration, increases housing stability, and improves quality of life for people with the most severe symptoms of mental illness.
Staff Stories: Meet Amy
I have worked with HopeWorks on the ACT team since 2009. At my previous job, I had to beg and plead to find my clients the assistance they needed. I was attracted to HopeWorks after someone I knew told me about how the organization was run. I really love working here; I feel supported and like I can actually make a difference. Funds and available resources are openly discussed, making it easy to help clients.
I am incredibly proud of all the work I’ve done with the ACT team. The fact that we are able to work together and build a community makes a world of difference in the lives of our clients. Our clients have also had a huge impact on my life. As a peer support worker, I have experience my own journey of treatment and healing to get where I am today. I walked around for over a decade having suicidal thoughts in the back of my head. While working at ACT/HopeWorks, I met a client who was diagnosed with terminal cancer at only 48. All this man wanted to do was to live, get married, have kids, and have fun, whereas all I wanted was to die. This experience changed my life, not just my future work but also my personal life. I realized life is a privilege, not a curse. Even if the days are very hard, at least I get to experience these days. I don’t lie to my clients and say that life is all roses and rainbows. Some days are just awful. However, life is an adventure, and you never know what comes next, whether it be good, bad, or boring. I want to stick around and find out what happens.