Southlake Regional Health Centre - Mental Health Program - Actt - Keswick

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