Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team For Adults

Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team For Adults A. The Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team (ICORT) is a recovery and resiliency oriented, intensive, community-based rehabilitation and outreach service for adults with a severe and persistent mental illness. It is a team-oriented approach to mental health rehabilitation intervention and supports necessary to assist people in achieving and maintaining rehabilitative, resiliency, and recovery goals. B. Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery services are provided primarily in natural settings and are delivered face-to-face with the person and their family/significant other as appropriate, for the primary well-being and benefit of the recipient. Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery assists in the setting and attaining of individually defined recovery/resiliency goals. The ICORT Team’s primary treatment objective is to assist in keeping people receiving the service in the community in which they live, avoiding placement in state-operated behavioral health service locations. C. ICORT services must be provided in accordance with the Intensive Community Outreach fidelity measures, as determined by DMH.