Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) Team:
Description:
Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) Team is a recovery oriented multidisciplinary team designed to work intensively with a small caseload of persons who have severe and persistent mental illnesses. Services are provided 24-hours a day, seven days a week, in the community where persons served can live, work and socialize. Staff include a psychiatrist, a team leader, three registered nurses, one case manager, one vocational counselor, one certified addictions professional, three masters level professionals with expertise in various modalities of treatment and intervention, one program assistant and one and one half peer assistants. The primary focus of FACT is to offer a quality of life that fosters independent living, meaningful choices in community-based treatment, reduction of hospitalizations and the belief that recovery is a process of reclaiming individual strengths and talents.
To be considered for Admission to FACT, a person must meet one or more of the following conditions:
Seriously impaired functioning in the community due to severe and persistent mental illness, such as schizophrenia, other psychotic disorder, or bipolar disorder.
Significantly impaired functioning as evidenced by at least one of the following:
- Inability to consistently perform Adult Daily Living Skills (ADLs)
- Inability to be consistently employed at a self-sustaining level
- Inability to consistently carry out homemaker roles
- Inability to maintain a safe living situation
Indicators of high service needs, such as:
- High use of acute psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric emergency centers
- Intractable severe major symptoms
- Co-existing substance abuse disorder of significant duration - note: NOT a primary diagnosis of substance abuse disorder
- High risk or a recent history of criminal justice involvement
- Inability to meet basic survival needs or residing in substandard housing, homeless or at imminent risk of being homeless
- Residing in an inpatient bed or in a supervised community residence, but assessed as being able to live in a more independent situation
Referral process:
Referrals may be sent to the Department of Children and Families' Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Program Office (ADM) or can be sent to the FACT office where it will be forwarded to the ADM office. Once eligibility has been determined, the ADM Client Manager and the FACT Program Staff will cooperatively assess the immediate level of need for each referral with the final decision being made by the ADM Client Manager from the pool of all consumers referred who meet FACT eligibility.
Hours of operation:
Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM.
On-call service after hours:
(727) 791-3131