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Description:
This course is an overview from the NC Evidence Based Practices Center of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and the ACT Resource Toolkit. The ACT toolkit is part of six evidence-based practices that have been developed at Dartmouth with Bob Drake and his associates with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. The toolkits are designed to encourage community mental health programs serving patients with severe and persistent mental illnesses to learn and use these practices as a state of the art approach to serving this population.

Learning Objectives:
- Discuss overview of Assertive Community Treatment
- Recognize the six evidence-based practices presented in the ACT toolkit
- Understand the importance of learning about and using Assertive Community Treatment practices when serving persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses

Author(s):
Marvin Swartz, MD
Department of Psychiatry
Duke University School of Medicine

Target Audience:
Community mental health providers

Length: 2 hours

Credit Type(s): 0.2 CEU, 2 Contact Hours, 2 NBCC, 2 NBCSAPPB GSB

Cost: $20.00