Timeline of assertive community treatment

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1970s ACT is first developed during the early 1970s.
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1970s ACT is first developed in Wisconsin by a group of clinicians at Mendota State Hospital who believe that persons with severe mental illness should be given the opportunity to live in the community by receiving intensive treatment, rehabilitation, and support there, rather than on long-term mental hospital wards.[1] United States
1978 The first big-city adaptation of ACT and the first such program to focus on the most frequently hospitalized segment of the mental health consumer population is developed in Chicago, and called Bridge assertive outreach program.[2] United States}}
1994 – 2004 The United States National Alliance on Mental Illness operates an ACT technical assistance center, dedicated to the advocacy and training to make the model more widely available, with funding from the United States federal government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.[2] United States
1998 The United States National Alliance on Mental Illness publishes the first manualization of the ACT model, writen by two of its original developers, Allness and Knoedler.[2] United States
1998 Literature Alberto B. Santos publishes Assertive Community Treatment of Persons With Severe Mental Illness.[3]
2010 Literature Sandra J. Johnson publishes Assertive Community Treatment: Evidence-Based Practice or Managed Recovery.[4]

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