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The Child and Adolescent Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team is a community based program which provides or arranges for services, treatment and support to families with children at significant risk for out-of-home placement for whom traditionally structured services have not met their needs. The team offers a point of responsibility for serving youth with serious emotional disturbance. By providing intensive home and community based services in the youth┐s home community, the team can preserve family integrity and prevent unnecessary out-of-home placement. Success for youth requires both effective treatment and services that are flexible enough to meet families ever changing needs. Teams employ a wraparound, strength-based care coordination model which is child-centered and family-focused, fundamental to enhancing resiliency, meeting the imperatives of developmental stages and promoting wellness for each child and family. It ensures effective interventions by implementing a creative and collaborative partnership with the family, treatment provider(s), community-based services and other natural supports. Intensive in-home services include case management, therapy, education and skill building services, among others to improve the families and youth┐s skills and abilities.