Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) and Intensive Community Treatment (ICT) are service-delivery models that provide comprehensive, locally based treatment to people with serious and persistent mental illnesses. Unlike other community-based programs, PACT is not a linkage or brokerage case management program that connects individuals to mental health, housing, or rehabilitation agencies or services. Rather, it provides highly individualized services directly to consumers.
PACT recipients receive the multidisciplinary, around-the-clock staffing of a psychiatric unit, but within the comfort of their own home and community. To have the competencies and skills to meet a client’s multiple treatments, rehabilitation, and support needs, PACT team members are trained in the areas of psychiatry, social work, nursing, substance abuse, and vocational rehabilitation. The PACT team provides these necessary services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
The IWLA has provided the NRVCS PACT/ICT programs the use of their facilities on an annual basis for a picnic/fishing day for their clients. The league has graciously provided this opportunity for years. This annual event is meant for people with various mental/physical illness to come together for a day of community access and practice of daily living skills.