Heartland Family Service
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an evidence-based approach to comprehensive, community-based treatment for persons with serious mental illness. The ACT advantage is that interdisciplinary mental health clinicians are an organized team that functions in a coordinated manner to provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services, so that persons with serious mental illnesses can live successfully in the community. The ACT model has demonstrated effectiveness for “clients in greatest need,” including people who have major symptoms that improve only partially or not at all with medication and other treatments, or who may have a coexisting substance use disorder or a physical illness (e.g., diabetes) that aggravates psychiatric symptoms and impairments, and magnifies overall service needs.


Service Areas
Pottawattamie County and Southwest Iowa

Eligibility
Adult residents of Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, and Shelby counties, living with serious mental illness that impairs social functioning and produces continuous high-service needs. Individuals who have been ordered by local and/or state courts to receive extended outpatient treatment and other services may also be eligible for ACT services.

Fees
None


Location
Charles E. Lakin Human Services Campus Office
1515 Ave J
Council Bluffs, IA 51501
PH: (712) 435-5350
Harlan Office
719 Market Street,
Harlan, IA 51537
PH: (712) 695-4002

Hours of Operation
Lakin Office
Monday through Friday
8:30 a.m– 5:00 p.m.
Harlan Office
by appointment only

FUNDING
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Lakin Office – (712) 435-5350
Harlan Office – (712) 695-4002