Community Living

Building Healthy Communities [External link]

A video on building healthy communities from the NCHPAD

Promoting Wellness [External link]

Issue of the publication: Impact with articles about supporting wellness for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Assertive Community Treatment Implementation Manual—The Evidence-based Treatment Guide from The Center for Evidence-based Practices and Its Ohio Assertive Community Treatment Coordinating Center of Excellence [External link]

A guide for implementing assertive community treatment from Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University

Association for Positive Behavior Support Home and Community Network [External link]

Website for the Home and Community Positive Behavior Support Network (HCPBS)

Impact: Sexuality Feature Issue on Sexuality and People with Intellectual, Developmental and Other Disabilities [External link]

Issue of the publication: Impact with articles about sexuality and people with intellectual, developmental and other disabilities

Beach Center: Operation Positive Change: PBS in an urban Context [External link]

This article describes Operation Positive Change—a training curriculum and train-the-trainer model developed by Pyramid Parent Training Community Parent Resource Center that brings PBS best practices identified by leading PBS researchers to parents in New Orleans, Louisiana.

National Alliance on Mental Illness Minnesota –Fact Sheets on ACT [External link]

A page listing fact sheets on mental illnesses

Minnesota Assertive Community Treatment Dartmouth Assertive Community Treatment Scale [External link]

Assertive Community Treatment Fidelity Scale from the MN DHS

MN Department of Human Services Online Mental Health Policy Manual [External link]

This online Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP) Provider Manual is your primary information source for MHCP coverage policies, rates and billing procedures and is updated on an ongoing basis.

Cost Effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment [External link]

To determine the cost-effectiveness of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in comparison to Standard Case Management (SCM) for persons with severe mental illness and substance use disorders.