Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 24 - Mental Health
Part 2 - Operational Standards for Mental Health, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Community Service Providers
Chapter 32 - Intensive Community Supports for Serious Emotional Disturbance and Serious Mental Illness
Rule 24-2-32.5 - Program of Assertive Community Treatment Employee Communication and Planning

1. The Program of Assertive Community Treatment Team must maintain a written daily log. The daily log provides:

2. 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.

3. The Program of Assertive Community Treatment Team, under the direction of the team leader, must maintain a weekly individual schedule for each person. The weekly individual schedule is a written schedule of all treatment and service contacts that employees must carry out to fulfill the goals and objectives in the person's Individual Service Plan. The team will maintain a central file of all weekly individual schedules.

4. The Program of Assertive Community Treatment Team, under the direction of the team leader, must develop a daily employee assignment schedule from the central file of all weekly individual schedules. The daily employee assignment schedule is a written timetable for all the 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) to be done on a given day, to be divided and shared by the employees working on that day.

5. The daily organizational employee meeting will include a review of all the work to be done that 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 treatment and service activities scheduled to occur that day, and the team leader will be responsible for assuring that all tasks are completed.

6. During the daily organizational employee meeting, the Program of Assertive Community Treatment Team must also revise Individual Service Plans as needed, plan for emergency and crisis situations, and add service contacts to the daily employee assignment schedule per the revised Individual Service Plans.

1. Convene at regularly scheduled times per a written schedule set by the team leader.

2. Occur and be scheduled when the majority of the team members can attend, including the psychiatrist/psychiatric nurse practitioner, team leader, and all members of the Individual Treatment Team.

3. Require individual employees to present and systematically review and integrate individual information into a holistic analysis and prioritization of issues.

4. Occur with sufficient frequency and duration to make it possible for all employees: