Administrative offices and programs geared toward the outside community, including homelessness prevention, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams, workforce training, and educational facilities will be in building C on the north courtyard's western perimeter aligning the street.
We must take the lead in advocating for adequate funding for aftercare linkage systems, assertive community treatment teams, supervised and supported housing, day treatment, psychiatric services, and the provision of medications.
For example, North Carolina has created a single statewide entity focused on a variety of evidence-based practices, the North Carolina Evidence-Based Practices Center, while Indiana has formed the ACT Center of Indiana to promote the implementation of Assertive Community Treatment.
Coverage includes an overview of mental illness and homelessness, general concepts of outreach and engagement, single adults in shelters, families in shelters, assertive community treatment, housing issues and models, mobile crisis teams, psychiatric emergency services, psychiatric inpatient settings, primary care settings, homeless children, jails and prisons, homeless veterans, and rural settings.
