ACT Team 241 Clarence Street Unit # 28 Brampton, ON, L6W 4P2 Ph.: 905-459-2282 Fax: 905-459-2290 E-mail: actt@cmhapeel.ca Monday to Friday (admin hours) 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Directions

Central Intake 905-451-2123
Agencies may click here for a Central Intake referral form.

ACTT is a service-delivery model that provides comprehensive, community based treatment for people with serious and persistent mental illnesses.

• Services are targeted to a specific group of individuals with severe mental illness
   

• Team members directly provide individualized, flexible, and comprehensive treatment, support and rehabilitation
   

• Illness management and recovery skills
   

• Skills teaching and assistance with daily living activities
   

• No arbitrary time limits on receiving services

ACTT strives to lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness each individual client experiences and to minimize or prevent recurrent acute episodes of the illness, to meet basic needs and enhance quality of life, to improve functioning in adult social and employment roles, to enhance an individual's ability to live independently in his or her own community, and to lessen the family's burden of providing care.

• Assertive Community Treatment uses a multidisciplinary team approach to provide intensive services where and when clients need them—in their homes, at work and in other community settings—24 hours a day, seven days a week
   

• Team members share responsibility for clients served by the team
   

• Team members encourage and support clients’ through regular conversations, to help them with their understanding of their reluctance or hesitation to take their medications
   

• Team members provide clients with regular reminders and supervision around taking medications over both short and long periods of time, as needed e.g., phone calls, daily medication drop-offs, individual medication packaging

ACTT services are individually tailored with each client and address the preferences and identified goals of each client. The approach with each client emphasizes relationship-building and active involvement in assisting individuals with serious mental illness to make improvements in functioning to better manage symptoms, to achieve individual goals, and to maintain optimism.

The Canadian Mental Health Association/Peel Branch is one of three providers in the Peel Region of ACT teams. Working in partnership with these providers to establish service catchment areas, CMHA’s team is responsible for clients in the north-east part of Peel Region. In the city of Brampton, the area is bounded by Hwy. 50 to the east, Hwy. 410 to the west, just south of Hwy. 407 to the south and Mayfield Road to the north. CMHA/Peel ACT also is responsible for clients living in Bolton. Click here to view a map outlining which ACT team covers which area. If you have any questions about which ACT team to contact, call the Resource Centre at 905-451-2123.

Portions of the above text are taken from the Ontario ACT Association’s web site, Program Standards. http://www.ontarioacttassociation.com/on_standards.php