- Access to Community Treatment

Access to Community Treatment—or ACT—is a family-focused, community-based intensive outpatient program designed to serve children and adolescents with a history of severe mental-health issues.

A team of master's-level clinicians and community interventionists, led by a full-time clinical director, provides clients with therapeutic and case-management services at the home and community level. ACT specifically helps clients remain in their community by teaching them how to cope and function safely at home, in their communities, and in school.

Psychiatric treatment services
Individual, family, and group therapy
Comprehensive assessments
Community-based services

Case-management services
Interagency liaison
Comprehensive discharge planning

ACT serves those ages four through 17, as well as their families. To be eligible for service, clients . . .

May be at risk for out-of-home mental-health treatment;
Must have recently engaged in violent, self-destructive, or similar high-risk behavior;
Must have family members willing to participate in intensive family therapy; and
Must meet the eligibility criteria of the Division of Child Mental Health Services.

If you are interested in learning more about this service, please call (302) 995-2002. When making a referral, please call (302) 633-5128.

The Brandywine Program is a service of Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries and is funded by the State of Delaware, Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (Division of Prevention and Behavioral Health Services).