I Just had a great discussion with the Renfrew ACTT Team members about client transition, "shift in service" issues, while providing back the results of their teams ATR Team profile. As a more rural focused team, they describe strongly...in detail, focus on formal and "natural" networks/community that people on the teams live within.
Hopefully the team will speak up on how they do this in the CoP, but the focus of an ACT team on community networks, while for sure an everyday component of our work, deserves greater focus and attention of the role of an ACT team within: community services and support people to be part of the community. I say this, as we all here in Ontario at least, celebrate mental health week and advocate for "social inclusion," and "ending the stigma."
In Anna Scheyett, Carrie Pettus-Davis, and Gary Cuddeback's report Assertive Community Treatment as community change intervention (see file attachment below) they identified that ACT can support moving "beyond individual focus to examine impact on community service systems."
This is super relevant when we think of people moving from ACT, which I like to frame as "shift in service," advancing people's recovery goals. We need to know people will be well supported by others where ever they go.