Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Employment, Home Health Care, and Mental Health - Adult
Provided by Fraser Health
ACT team members work closely with the person along with the person’s family or other supports identified by the person, to create a plan to improve their quality of life and decrease time spent in hospital, and with emergency services.
The ACT team provides comprehensive assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and support activities including:
- Assisting with housing needs as required
- Accessing medical care
- Substance use counselling and/or access to treatment
- Life skills support/skill building
- Medication delivery
- Grocery shopping with staff
- Social and recreational events in and out of office, client-driven groups
- Vocational rehabilitation support-help with finding volunteer or competitive employment
- Connecting the person to community resources
- Transport the person to appointments
- Supporting and encouraging healthy lifestyle choices, personal hygiene, short and long-term goal setting and money management
- Connecting person to income assistance services
- Medication management
Access
Eligibility
- Adults (19+) living in a community with an ACT team.
- Adults living with serious mental illness who have many complex needs, and have great difficulty managing their day-to-day tasks, most of the time (e.g. cooking, cleaning, banking, taking medications as prescribed).
- Adults facing mental health and substance use disorders, at risk of further deterioration and/or at risk of homelessness.
- Adults who have had many visits to hospital emergency departments, admissions to hospital psychiatric care, and/or frequently use police and ambulance services.
- Substance use disorders without a primary mental health disorder
- Dementia
- A primary diagnosis of personality disorder
- In Surrey, South Surrey and North Delta, contact the Surrey Mental Health Outreach Program.
- In Abbotsford and Mission, contact the Abbotsford/ Mission ACT Team.
- In New Westminster and Tri-Cities (Anmore, Belcarra, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody), contact the New Westminster/Tri-Cities ACT Team.
- In Burnaby, contact the Burnaby ACT Team.
- In Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, contact the Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows ACT Team.
Location finder: https://www.fraserhealth.ca/Service...
604-851-3750 (Abbotsford/Mission)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team - Abbotsford/Mission - #101, 32463 Simon Avenue, Abbotsford, British Columbia, V2T 5E3
604-807-3989 (Burnaby)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team - Burnaby - #100, 4940 Canada Way, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5G 4K6
604-777-6826 (New Westminster/Tricities)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team - New Westminster/Tricities - #3rd floor, 403 Sixth Street, New Westminster, British Columbia, V3L 3B1
236-332-9203 (Langley)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team - Langley - Please call for more information regarding address., Langley, British Columbia
604-592-2700 (Surrey and North Delta)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team - Surrey and North Delta - #203, 7327 137 Street, Surrey, British Columbia, V3W 1A4
604-476-4660 (Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team - Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows - #205, 11743 224 Street, Maple Ridge, British Columbia
Cost: No cost
Referral options:
- Self-referral
- Family physician or nurse practitioner referral
- Health Authority personnel referral
Details: Residents of these communities with an ACT team can be referred through a community or hospital-based health care provider.
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Availability
Service area: Fraser Health Area + show cities
Service Types Provided
Ways to Access
- After Hours Services
- Provided 1:1 in-person
- Provided at multiple locations
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