NAMInet The NAMInet is a tremendous resource exclusively for our grassroots leadership. A qualified person who is recovering from a severe mental illness can hold any staff position on a PACT team. Many consumers find employment on an assertive community treatment team satisfying work.
Many people have questions about the role of medication in assertive community treatment.
No. PACT consumers have choices, including a choice about taking medications. If a consumer does not want to take medication, he or she is not discharged or abandoned. PACT continues to work with consumers who do not want medications in other ways, such as with finding housing or a job or managing symptoms without medications. Courts sometimes do order people to take medications, so some PACT members are legally required to follow that treatment. These people would have that requirement no matter where they got services, in a PACT program or in any other community mental health program.