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Primary Goals of Pact

Payne County PACT strives to lessen or eliminate the debilitating symptoms of mental illness that each individual consumer experiences. PACT also aims to prevent or minimize recurrent acute episodes of the illness, meet basic needs, and improve functioning in adult social and employment roles. It is also the desire of PACT to enhance an individual’s ability to live independently in his or her own community and to enhance the quality of life for each consumer.
History of PACT
The PACT model evolved out of work led by Arnold Marx, M.D., Leonard Stein, M.D., and Mary Ann Test, Ph.D. on an inpatient research unit at Mendota State Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Noting the fact that progress made by consumers in the hospital often did not transfer to the community, they hypothesized that round-the-clock care would be just as important after discharge. To test their assumption, in 1972 they moved a hospital ward treatment staff into the community, beginning the program of assertive community treatment. The PACT model, now in it’s 34th year, has been investigated in Madison and at other replication sites and has proven (1) to decrease the time persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses spend in hospitals and (2) to facilitate the community living and psychosocial rehabilitation of these individuals.
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Edwin Fair Community
Mental Health Center, Inc.
Locations

Kay County
Administrative Office, Outpatient Clinic,
And System of Care
1500 N. 6th St., Ponca City, OK 74601
(580) 762-7561/1-800-566-1343

Medication Clinic & Case Management
201 E. Chestnut, Ponca City, OK 74601
(580) 763-6017
(PACT) Program of Assertive Community Treatment
205 E. Chestnut, Ponca City, OK 74601
(580) 763-0931
Osage County
Outpatient Clinic & Systems of Care
124 E. 6th , Pawhuska, OK 74056
(918) 287-1175
Noble County
Outpatient Clinic & Systems of Care
505 N. 14th Suite 5 Street, Perry, OK 73077
(580) 336-5200
Payne County
0utpatient Clinic & Systems of Care
800 E. 6th St., Suite B, Stillwater, OK 74074
(405) 372-1250
(PACT) Program of Assertive Community Treatment
800 E 6th St., Suite B, Stillwater, OK 74074
(405) 372-2342
Medication Clinic & Case Management
712 Devon St., Stillwater, OK 74074
Med Clinic (405) 372-1261 / CM (405) 372-6100
Pawnee County
Served by Payne County Offices
(405)372-1250

Edwin Fair Community
Mental Health Center, Inc.

P A C T
PROGRAM OF
ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY
TREATMENT

Mission:
Payne County Program of
Assertive Community Treatment
is dedicated to the mission of
empowering the consumers we serve
to achieve a quality of life that ensures
independence through the process of
encouragement and support from our
service-delivery multidisciplinary team.

800 E 6th St., Suite B
Stillwater, OK 74074
(405) 372-2342
Office Hours
Monday- Friday
8:00 am-5:00 pm On Call After Hours

Program Description

The Payne County Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) is an Evidence based service-delivery model of Treatment that provides comprehensive, Locally based services for severely mentally ill adults. This form of treatment is an alternative to traditional community mental health service as it provides most of the treatment in the home of the consumer rather than providing treatment in an office setting.
This type of treatment has proved to be effective in managing the mental illness symptoms of those who have been unsuccessful in traditional forms of mental health services and aims to assist in the reduction of consumer institutionalization by hospitalization or correctional means (Hoult et al.; 1983; Stein & Test, 1980).
This program provides rehabilitation and highly individualized services through a multidisciplinary mental health team, which may offer psychiatric , substance abuse, and employment assistance, according to Oklahoma Department of Mental Health Substance Abuse Services mandate, PACT is “a self-contained clinical program that assures the fixed point of responsibility for providing treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to consumers with serious mental illnesses.”

Our Services

Payne County PACT Program services include crisis intervention, psychiatric assessment with medication prescription, administration, management and documentation as needed, symptom assessment/management, individual supportive therapy, individual and group rehabilitation, and substance abuse treatment. Case management will also be available to support activities of daily living. Provisions for social, interpersonal relationship, and leisure-time skill training will be available on an individual basis according to the consumer’s needs dictated by the service plan of treatment. Peer support and employment assistance will also be integrated into the service plan to engage consumers in the process of empowerment and recovery.
The Payne County PACT Team will be available to provide treatment, rehabilitative, and support services seven days a week, including holidays and evenings, according to the mandate for a team size of 8.5 full time employees (FTE). The hours of operation for a team size of 8.5 FTE or less are a single eight-hour shift; with consumer needs as specified in the treatment plans driving any extended hours of operation. For teams serving less than fifty consumers, there will be eight hours of coverage per day with a minimum of one clinical staff on weekends and holidays.
The PACT team will also operate an after-hours on-call system that will provide one staff member on a rotation basis to be available for crisis intervention and other services in person or by phone twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Psychiatric backup will also be on-call during after-hours. If psychiatric assistance is not feasible, an alternative psychiatric backup will be arranged.
Population to be Served
The Payne County PACT Program has been designed to serve adult consumers with severe and persistent mental illnesses, which are psychiatric disorders that cause symptoms and impairments to basic mental and/or behavioral processes. Consumers with such symptoms and impairments may be limited in daily functioning such as self-care, social and/or interpersonal relationships, and employment. Payne County PACT aims to serve individuals of severe and persistent mental illness regardless of severity of illness, disruptiveness in the community, or failure to participate in or respond to traditional mental health services. Payne County PACT consumers may be voluntary or admitted under court commitment.

Hours of Operation