Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)
Assisted Outpatient Treatment is a civil court-supervised, community-based treatment program for individuals with severe mental illness. This program is a collaborative effort with the City of Albuquerque. Research has shown the following for individuals who received AOT:
- 55% fewer recipients engaged in suicide attempts or physical harm to self;
- 47% fewer physically harmed others;
- 46% fewer damaged or destroyed property;
- 43% fewer threatened physical harm to others;
- Overall, the average decrease in harmful behaviors was 44%;
- 74% fewer participants experienced homelessness;
- 77% fewer experienced psychiatric hospitalization;
- On average, AOT recipients’ length of hospitalization was reduced 56% from pre-AOT levels;
- 83% fewer experienced arrest;
- 87% fewer experienced incarceration;
- 49% fewer abused alcohol;
- 48% fewer abused drugs.
