Behavioral Health Outreach Services - ACCESS Team

This program provides mental health and substance abuse services in a flexible, outreach-based format to HIV+ individuals, with a focus on minority communities in our service area. Based on an Assertive Community Treatment model, our multi-disciplinary team includes a psychiatrist, a psychologist, and social workers, and case managers from our four community partners: Cambridge Cares about AIDS; Centro Latino; the Massachusetts Association of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS), and Tri-CAP.

Services are tailored to the needs of each participant, offering medication management services, various modalities of psychotherapy, and integrated case management. Services may be provided at home, at community sites, or in our clinic.

Our goals are:

• To address the behavioral health needs of referred HIV+ clients who might otherwise not access such services, and;
• To do so in a manner which embodies respect and enhances self-care, health and quality of life.

This program is funded by a 5-year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) until September 30, 2011. CHA-contracted third party insurance is accepted.