ACC’s Behavioral Health Division is a comprehensive community-based, outpatient program, accredited by the Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission (CARF) since 1992 and committed to the prevention and treatment of psychological and social problems in the Arab-American, Chaldean, and mainstream community.  The mission of the Behavioral Health Program, which was reaccredited by CARF in 2007, is to improve the quality of life of those individuals who seek its assistance.  ACC helps consumers develop their inner potential and empowers them to become valuable and productive members of the community.   

ACC is committed to providing comprehensive, culturally sensitive and competent outpatient behavioral health services that are cost effective, consumer-driven and represent the highest standards of the profession.  ACC’s five conveniently located outpatient clinics in Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne counties offer quality behavioral health services. Services include:

Ø  Psychiatric Assessment and Consultation
Ø  Psycho-social Assessment
Ø  Psychological Testing and Evaluation
Ø  Psychopharmacological Treatment / Medication Review
Ø  Case Management
Ø  Individual, Marital and Family Counseling
Ø  Crisis Intervention
Ø  Adult Foster Care Home Placement and Monitoring
Ø  Grief Counseling
Ø  Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Ø  Community Outreach
Ø  Education and Advocacy
Ø  Cultural Competency and Sensitivity Training
Ø  Co-Occurring Treatment for Dually-Diagnosed patients
Ø  Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Ø  Home-Based Infant Mental Health
Ø  Assertive Community Treatment 

In addition to its outpatient clinics, ACC’s Wayne County Network Clubhouse provides psychosocial & vocational rehabilitation while encouraging social reintegration for consumers with reoccurring and long term mental illness, through person centered planned activities. In partnership with Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency, the Clubhouse focuses on building its client’s strengths, independent living skills, and develops employment opportunities. The aim is to slowly integrate the client into society. The Network Clubhouse believes that its members and staff work in a partnership towards mutual support, delivering high quality services to its members.        

Over the past year the behavioral health division has expanded its services and office space to better meet the needs of the community. ACC expanded services to include Home-Based Infant Mental Health Services and an Assertive Community Treatment Team.  The Infant Mental Health Program is a Home-Based service that provides therapy and support to parents and infants that address ongoing mental health concerns, infants that suffer from low birth weight, developmental delays, emotional or behavioral problems, or a basic failure to thrive.  By providing weekly in home visits ACC staff are able to provide guidance and support as well as link families to needed community resources.  

Assertive Community Treatment is an evidenced-based practice that offers treatment, rehabilitation, and support services, using a person-centered, recovery-based approach, to individuals that have been diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness.  The goal of Assertive Community Treatment is to help people stay out of the hospital and to develop skills for living in the community, so that their mental illness is not the driving force in their lives. Assertive community treatment offers services that are customized to the individual needs of the consumer, delivered by a team of practitioners, and available 24 hours a day.