Program of Assertive Community Treatment Employee Communication and

Program of Assertive Community Treatment Employee Communication and Planning A. The PACT Team must conduct daily organizational meetings at regularly scheduled times per a schedule established by the team leader. These meetings will be conducted in accordance with the following procedures: 1. The PACT Team must maintain a written daily log. The daily log provides: (a) A roster of the people served in the program; and (b) For each person, a brief documentation of any treatment or service contacts that have occurred during the last 24 hours and a concise, behavioral description of the person’s status that day. B. The daily organizational employee meeting must commence with a review of the daily log to update employees on the treatment contacts which occurred the day before and to provide a systematic means for the team to assess the day-to-day progress and status of all people. C. The PACT Team, under the direction of the team leader, must develop a daily employee assignment schedule, which is a documented timetable for all individual treatment and service contacts and all indirect individual work (e.g., medical record review, meeting with collaterals [such as employers, social security], job development, Individual Service Planning, and documentation). The PACT team daily employee organizational meeting will include a review of all work to be done for the day, as recorded on the daily employee assignment schedule. During the meeting, the team leader or designee will assign and supervise employees to carry out the scheduled treatment and service activities; the team leader is responsible for ensuring that all tasks are completed. The team must also maintain a weekly individual schedule, which documents all treatment and service contacts which employees must carry out to fulfill the goals and objectives in the person’s Individual Service Plan. During the daily organizational employee meeting, the Program of Assertive Community Treatment Team must also revise Individual Service Plans as needed. D. The PACT Team must conduct Individual Service Planning meetings under the supervision of the team leader and the psychiatrist/psychiatric nurse practitioner. These Individual Service Planning meetings must: 1. Convene at regularly scheduled times per a written schedule set by the team leader. 2. Occur with sufficient frequency and duration to make it possible for all employees: (a) to be familiar with each person and their goals and aspirations; (b) to participate with the person and the Individual Treatment Team in the development and the revision of the Individual Service Plan; and (c) to understand fully the Individual Service Plan rationale in order to carry out each person’s plan.