An Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team consists of a community-based group of medical, behavioral health, and rehabilitation professionals who use a team approach to meet the needs of a beneficiary with severe and persistent mental illness. A beneficiary who is appropriate for ACT does not benefit from receiving services across multiple, disconnected providers, and may become at greater risk of hospitalization, homelessness, substance use, victimization, and incarceration. An ACT team provides person-centered services addressing the breadth of a beneficiary’s needs, helping him or her achieve their personal goals. Thus, a fundamental charge of ACT is to be the first-line (and generally sole provider) of all the services that an ACT beneficiary needs. Being the single point of responsibility necessitates a higher frequency and intensity of community-based contacts, and a very low beneficiary-to-staff ratio. Services are flexible; teams offer varying levels of care for all beneficiaries, and appropriately adjust service levels given an individual beneficiary’s changing needs over time.

Alternative family living allows persons with Intellectual Disabilities to live in a residential setting with professional supervision. The supervisor known as the AFL provider trains in many areas to ensure the client receives quality care.

Community Support Team (CST) provides direct support to adults with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5) diagnosis of mental illness, substance use, or co-morbid disorder and who have complex and extensive treatment needs. This service consists of community-based mental health and substance use services, and structured rehabilitative interventions intended to increase and restore a beneficiary’s ability to live successfully in the community. The team approach involves structured, face-to-face therapeutic interventions that assist in re-establishing the beneficiary’s community roles related to the following life domains: emotional, behavioral, social, safety, housing, medical and health, educational, vocational, and legal.

NC Brookhaven Behavioral Health also provides general outpatient behavioral health services which includes: Individual Therapy with a licensed mental health clinician and Medication management provided by either a licensed psychiatrist or advanced practice provider such as nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant.

Collaborative Care Model

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Diagnostic Assessments

Multidisciplinary Evaluations (MDEs)

Must be court ordered*

Veterans Treatment Court