Rule 24-2-32.7 - Program of Assertive Community Treatment's ContactsA. The PACT Team must have the capacity to provide multiple contacts during a week with people experiencing severe symptoms, trying a new medication, experiencing a health problem or serious life event, trying to go back to school or starting a new job, making changes in their living situation or employment, or having significant ongoing problems in daily living. These multiple contacts must be a minimum of two (2) times per week (60 minutes per contact) and depend on individual need and a mutually agreed upon plan between people and agency provider employees. Many, if not all, team members must share responsibility for addressing the needs of all people requiring frequent contact.B. The PACT Team must have the capacity to rapidly increase service intensity to a person when their status requires it, or a person requests it.C. The PACT Team must provide a mean (i.e., average) of at least two (2) contacts per week (60 minutes per contact) for all people.D. Each new PACT Team must gradually build up its caseload with a maximum admission rate of five (5) people per month.E. PACT services must be provided 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week. This requirement does not include the following: mobile crisis response, community support services only, or an on-call MOU; PACT must have face-to-face staff on the weekends.F. Each PACT Team must set a goal of providing eighty percent (80%) of service contacts in the community in non-office-based or non-facility-based settings.