Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)
Erie County administers a program that provides Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT). This Program involves enhanced monitored comprehensive behavioral health services.
Services are provided to individuals with a mental illness who, because of their treatment history and present circumstances, are unlikely to survive safely in the community without supervision.
Read more below about eligibility criteria for the AOT program.
A person may be eligible to obtain AOT if he or she:
- Is at least 18 years of age and suffers from a mental illness; and
- Is unlikely to survive in the community without supervision, based on a clinical determination; and
- Has a history of non-compliance with treatment for mental illness which has led to either 2 hospitalizations for mental illness in the preceding 3 years, or resulted in at least 1 act of violence toward self or others, or threats of serious physical harm to self or others, within the preceding 4 years; and
- Is unlikely to accept the treatment recommended in the treatment plan; and
- Requires AOT to avoid a relapse or deterioration that would likely result in serious harm to self or others; and will likely benefit from AOT.
Referrals for AOT Services are made via the Erie County Department of Mental Health.
To access the website and start the referral process, please click here.
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