Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a team-based approach to delivering comprehensive and flexible treatment, support and services.
 

ACT is an extensive service for individuals who experience serious mental illness. People who receive ACT services typically have needs that have not been effectively addressed by traditional, less intensive mental health services.
 

Catalyst’s ACT team provides comprehensive, individualized services in an integrated and continuous manner. Services are collaborative and recovery-oriented, and treatment includes: psychiatric assessment, medication management, individual supportive therapy, substance abuse treatment, co-occurring disorders treatment, supportive housing, resource linkage, advocacy, family psycho-education and therapy, supportive employment and education development, legal assistance, community integration services, peer support and group counseling.
 

The goal of Assertive Community Treatment is to assist people in achieving stability, independence and success.

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Catalyst™ Eligibility

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Client must meet two or more of the criteria:

• Medical necessity must be established (face to face) to determine the presence of a severe psychiatric disability

• Has current LPS Conservatorship (may be a designated County Conservator or family member (Private Conservator)

• Minimum one hospitalization in the past year, OR multiple ER utilizations, PERT interventions, jail mental health service, and/or long-term care hospitalization

• Have major impairments in life functioning

• Person in not connected to outpatient treatment

• Person is experiencing an acute psychiatric episode that might require SBCM level services

• Is at high-risk of admission to an inpatient mental health facility

• Has a substantial need for supportive services (including care coordination and outreach mental health services) to maintain current level of functioning in the community, as evident by missed appointment, medication non-adherence, or inability to coordinate services from multiple agencies

• Does not have a case manager from another program who is able to address mental health needs

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• Be a San Diego county resident.

• Medi-Cal eligible or indigent.

• Be 16-25 years old.

• Be an internal county referral for persons stepping down from a long-term care facility or a person on San Diego county’s high-utilizer list

• Homelessness or at risk of homelessness

• Level of acuity and need for intensive ACT services per LOCUS assessment (Level 4 -Medically Monitored Non-Residential Services)