Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 24 - Mental Health › Part 2 - Operational Standards for Mental Health, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Community Service Providers › Chapter 32 - Intensive Community Supports for Serious Emotional Disturbance and Serious Mental Illness › Rule 24-2-32.7 - Program of Assertive Community Treatment Required Services

Current through June 25, 2024
A. Operating as a continuous treatment
				service, the Program of Assertive Community Treatment Team must have the
				capability to provide comprehensive treatment, rehabilitation, and support
				services as a self-contained service unit. Services must minimally include the
				following (1-11):
1. Service
				Coordination/Individual Treatment Team
(a)
				Each person will be assigned one (1) member of the Program of Assertive
				Community Treatment Team to serve as a service coordinator who coordinates and
				monitors the activities of the person's individual treatment team (ITT) and the
				greater Program of Assertive Community Treatment Team. The primary
				responsibility of the service coordinator is to work with the person to write
				the Individual Service Plan, to provide individual supportive counseling, to
				offer options and choices in the Individual Service Plan, to ensure that
				immediate changes are made as the person's needs change, and to advocate for
				the person's wishes, rights, and preferences. The service coordinator is also
				the first employee called on when the person is in crisis and is the primary
				support person and educator to the person and/or person's family. Members of
				the person's treatment team share these tasks with the service coordinator and
				are responsible to perform the tasks when the service coordinator is not
				working. Service coordination also includes coordination with community
				resources, including self-help and advocacy organizations that promote
				recovery.
(b) Each person will be
				assigned to an individual treatment team. The individual treatment team is a
				group or combination of three to five (3-5) Program of Assertive Community
				Treatment personnel who together have a range of clinical and rehabilitation
				skills and expertise. The individual treatment team members are assigned to
				work with a person receiving services by the team leader and the
				psychiatrist/psychiatric nurse practitioner by the time of the first Individual
				Service Planning meeting or thirty (30) days after admission. The core members
				of the individual treatment team are the service coordinator, the
				psychiatrist/psychiatric nurse practitioner, and one (1) clinical or
				rehabilitation personnel who shares case coordination tasks and substitutes for
				the service coordinator when he or she is not working. The individual treatment
				team has continuous responsibility to:
1) be
				knowledgeable about the person's life, circum- stances, goals and desires;
2) collaborate with the person to
				develop and write the Individual Service Plan;
3) offer options and choices in the
				Individual Service Plan;
4) ensure
				that immediate changes are made as a person's needs change; and,
5) advocate for the person's wishes, rights,
				and preferences. The individual treatment team is responsible for providing
				much of the person's treatment, rehabilitation, and support services.
				Individual treatment team members are assigned to take separate service roles
				with the person as specified by the person and the individual treatment team in
				the Individual Service Plan.