Intensive Team-Based Support for Serious Mental Illness
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an intensive program for adults with serious mental illness. One team covers treatment, housing, work and health, comes to you, and can be reached in a crisis 24 hours a day.
The team includes a psychiatrist, nurses, therapists, case managers, peer support specialists and vocational specialists, and they meet about your care together rather than passing you between offices.
You don’t come to the clinic; the team comes to your home, workplace or neighborhood.
ACT is for people outpatient care hasn’t worked for: repeated hospitalizations, trouble keeping office appointments, homelessness, or involvement with the courts.
The team helps with psychiatric treatment, housing, employment, physical health, substance use, benefits and family relationships. In a rough stretch you might see someone several times a week; as things settle, less often.
Call (270) 689-6879 or request an appointment online. Walk-ins are welcome at our outpatient locations.
What to Expect
It starts with an assessment by several team members covering your history, strengths and goals. You get a primary contact, but over time you’ll know the whole team.
ACT is a long-term service. Some people stay on it for years; others move to less intensive services once they are steady.
Other Mental Health Services
Medication Management
Psychiatric evaluation and ongoing medication management from psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners, with telehealth follow-ups for established patients.
Therapeutic Community Support
Therapeutic Community Support Services sends a support worker to your home, workplace or community to work on coping skills and daily routines where you actually use them.
Case Management
A case manager helps adults and youth with serious mental illness get healthcare, housing, food assistance, transportation, employment services and benefits, and keeps all of their providers talking to each other.
Peer Support
Certified peer support specialists who have been through mental health recovery themselves, offering practical guidance and company along the way.
Therapeutic Rehabilitation
A weekday day program where adults with serious mental illness work on daily living skills, from budgeting and cooking to managing symptoms, in a group setting.
Recovery Care Coordination
One consistent coordinator who stays with you through treatment and after it, keeps you connected to services and steps in early when life changes.
Outpatient Mental Health
Individual, group and family therapy for children, teens and adults, using CBT, DBT and other approaches, in person or by telehealth.
Prescribers’ Clinic
Outpatient psychiatric evaluation and medication management for adults, from psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners, with short waits for a first appointment.
Intensive In Home Therapy
Intensive In-Home Therapy brings several hours of family therapy a week into the home, for children and teens who need more than outpatient care.
