Assertive Community Treatment Teams (ACTT)
Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) is offered 24 hours a day/7 days a week to provide intensive services for people with severe mental illness in the Georgina and Newmarket areas.
The goals of this team include:
- Lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness, and to minimize or prevent recurring episodes of illness.
- Meet the client’s basic needs and enhance their quality of life.
- Improve behaviour in adult social activities and employment roles.
- Lessen the family’s responsibility of providing care.
- Decrease the number of hospital visits, emergency visits, and crisis service contacts.
Admission Criteria:
- Clients must be 18 – 54 years of age
- Clients must have severe and persistent mental illness with psychosis such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective or bipolar disorder with a past history of multiple hospital admissions and psychiatric treatment
- Clients and/or the Substitute Decision Makers must be agreeable to ACTT services
Referrals are accepted from physicians, psychiatrists, and other mental health services.
Referral forms must be completed and submitted to Streamlined Access.
Once ACTT receives the referral, an intake will be completed and a team decision will be made if the client meets the criteria for ACTT services.
http://streamlinehub.yssn.ca/referralForm_0.php
Southlake Regional Health Centre - Keswick
443 The Queensway S
Keswick
Southlake Regional Health Centre (SRHC)
Main Hours: Open 24/7
Central Access - Phone: 289-340-0348
Central Access - FAX: 905-898-6457
Central Access - Toll Free: 844-660-6602
Central Access - TTY: 866-323-7784