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Program for Assertive Community
Treatment (PACT)
Red Rock has PACT in Tulsa and in Oklahoma City.
PACT is an effective, evidence-based, outreach oriented service delivery
model for people with severe and persistent mental illness. Using a
24-hours a day, seven days a week, team approach, PACT delivers
comprehensive community treatment, rehabilitation, and support services
to clients in their homes, at work and in community settings. PACT has
been shown to reduce hospitalization, homelessness and incarceration.
Many PACT clients have a history of multiple
hospitalizations, involvement with the judicial system, and may be
difficult to engage in traditional mental health services. The PACT
Team uses an integrated service approach by merging clinical and
rehabilitation staff expertise within one team.
Red Rock’s PACT teams are truly multidisciplinary.
Each includes a psychiatrist, registered nurses, licensed therapists,
certified case managers and consumers. Within the teams are further
specialty designations:
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A Substance Abuse Specialist assesses and treats client with dual
disorders;
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A Vocational Specialist assesses and plans work related
activities, including strategies for finding employment;
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A Housing Specialist works with the client in finding housing,
matching a potential roommate, and developing relationships with
landlords;
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A Peer Specialist is an individual who has personally experienced
mental illness. This member of the team is in a unique position to
provide insight to both clients and staff on the effects of mental
illness and to suggest possible treatment strategies.
There are several
unique characteristics of the PACT model:
- The Team is the
primary provider of service and has the responsibility to help
clients meet needs in all aspects of living in the community.
- The majority of
PACT’s treatment and rehabilitation interventions take place “in the
community” – the client’s own residence and neighborhood, at
employment sites, and in the same places other people spend their
leisure time.
- Treatment is highly
individualized across clients and across time. This is vital given
the great diversity among persons with severe mental illnesses.
- The PACT Team
assumes the responsibility to do whatever needs to be done to assist
clients meet their individual goals and treatment needs.
- PACT services are
delivered in a continuous rather than a time-limited framework.
During FY2005, 81% of the 39,695 services provided
to PACT clients were in their homes, hospitals, nursing homes, courts,
jails, job sites, school and other sites within the community.
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