Assistive Outpatient Treatment (AOT) is court-ordered treatment for people who have difficulty engaging in treatment and poses risk to self/others.
Assistive Outpatient Treatment (AOT) eligibility criteria include history of treatment nonadherence leading to two psychiatric hospitalizations or incarcerations in the last 3 years and history of physical harm to self/others (at least once in the last four years). Based on treatment history and current behavior, eligible patient should be in need of outpatient treatment to prevent a relapse or deterioration likely to result in serious harm to self or others.
More information can be found in the NYC Health Department’s AOT brochure. Call NYC Health Department AOT Program to start the referral process. Clients will often be simultaneously enrolled in IMT, ACT or Care Coordination.