Assertive Community Treatment, Partners in Recovery

At the Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board,  Partners in Recovery's Assertive Community Treatment offers an outreach service for people with a serious mental illness or substance abuse who need services outside an office setting.



The program also offers a co-occurring disorders program to provide short term treatment for adults who require both comprehensive psychiatric and addiction evaluation and stabilization of their psychiatric symptoms and substance abuse.  The program is uniquely designed to offer a comprehensive approach, integrating mental health and addition treatment in a single program design.  A team model of treatment emphasizes assessment, brief treatments and crisis intervention, clinical case management and the initiation of rehabilitation.



Members of the treatment team integrate psychotherapy, medication management (if indicated), relapse prevention and life skills training with 12-step recovery, crisis intervention, and social developmental orientations to support participants in achieving their goal.