Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) provides intensive monitoring, treatment support, and care management for people identified by the courts under Kendra’s Law.
AOT is court-ordered treatment for individuals with severe mental health diagnoses to comply with treatment while living in the community.
AOT increases people’s ability to live independently and reduces the likelihood of homelessness, arrest, incarceration, hospitalization, victimization, suicide, and other common outcomes of non-treatment.
Services Provided
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- 24-hour emergency on-call
- Weekly face-to face meetings with AOT Care Managers
- AOT Orders monitoring including housing (if ordered), and compliance with medication and mental health treatment
- Trauma-informed, person centered care
- Service coordination with community providers and natural supports
- Any other services designed to treat people’s mental health diagnoses and to assist people to live and function successfully in the community
Eligibility
RISE AOT Services are only provided to individuals residing in Saratoga County, Warren County, and Washington County.
A person may have an Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) order granted on their behalf if the court finds that they:
- are 18 years of age or older; and
- have mental health diagnoses; and
- are unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision, based on a clinical determination; and
- has a history of lack of compliance with treatment for mental diagnoses which has led to either:
- 2 hospitalizations for mental health diagnoses in the preceding 36 months, or
- 1 or more acts of serious violent behavior toward self or others or threats of, or attempts at, serious physical harm to self or others within the last 48 months; and
- is unlikely to voluntarily participate in outpatient treatment that would enable them to live safely in the community; and
- is in need of AOT in order to avoid a relapse or deterioration which would be likely to result in serious harm to self or others; and
- is likely to benefit from AOT
Referrals
To refer an individual for AOT Services, please call Adult Care Management.
Adult Care Management
Phone: 518-583-3640
Fax: 518-583-2681
Email: cminfo@riseservices.org