Adult and Child currently operates Community Treatment Teams that implement many of the evidence- based principles found in the Assertive Community Treatment model. In fact, Adult and Child was one of the earliest adopters of ACT in Indiana and co-directed the ACT Center of Indiana providing ACT related technical assistance around the world. 

Unfortunately, In July 2010, the Indiana Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning (OMPP), as well as the Indiana Division of Mental Health & Addiction (DMHA), implemented funding changes which have made it impossible for Adult and Child to maintain our two ACT teams as state certified teams.  The decision to drop our state ACT certification for Team Siear and CASE Team was a difficult decision which was based on the elimination of the Medicaid ACT daily rate, resulting in an inability for ADULT&child to cover the costs of running the teams as certified ACT teams.

Our Community Treatment Teams provide intensive community-based services to consumers. The teams will continue to follow the ACT model as closely as possible, as our commitment to ACT as an effective evidence-based practice is steady.

Much of the daily structure and activities on these teams  mirrors those of a certified ACT team; however, the community treatment teams are not state certified as ACT teams, therefore allowing them to provide services to consumers needing multiple levels of care versus the more strict admission criteria for ACT.

Adult and Child has also begun to introduce a number of skills training curricula to the teams and consumers in the coming months. We are confident the use of additional curricula will help staff and consumers work together to identify and accomplish skills-related goals and objectives which will lead to continued independence, self-sufficiency, and recovery.