Who We Are
Our Mission
As a comprehensive, community-based behavioral health organization, ACTS mission is to apply the best of contemporary physical and behavioral health interventions and social support services available to assist individuals and families to engage and succeed in recovery.
Our Mission
As a comprehensive, community-based behavioral health organization, ACTS mission is to apply the best of contemporary physical and behavioral health interventions and social support services available to assist individuals and families to engage and succeed in recovery.
Our Vision
To inspire hope, foster recovery and promote wellness for those in need of behavioral health services.
Our Values
Innovation
We search for creative solutions to provide individual, specialty care.
Collaboration
We use internal and external teamwork and integration to achieve common goals and meet community needs.
Accountability
We perform with integrity and respect to those we serve and the partners we work with.
Responsiveness
We achieve our mission by serving those in need of treatment and engaging our partners in a timely manner to increase access, success and quality of care.
Excellence
We promote quality outcomes through learning and continuous performance improvement.
Customer Service
We treat those we serve and partners with dignity, respect, and courtesy, listening earnestly and objectively to their needs.
Innovation
Collaboration
Accountability
Responsiveness
Excellence
Customer Service
Our History
Alcohol Community Treatment Services, Inc. (ACTS) is formed
Licensure is secured to provide drug abuse treatment services
ACTS open Adult Residential Treatment Program in Tarpon Springs
ACTS changes name to Agency for Community Treatment Services
The Juvenile Assessment Center (JAC) for truant and delinquent youth becomes operational and is the first program of its kind
ACTS opens the Adult Addictions Receiving Facility
ACTS becomes CARF Certified for first time and is recertified every three years since
The Amethyst Respite Center Inebriate Shelter opens
ACTS contracts with Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners to become the lead agency for Mental Health Jail Diversion
ACTS receives grant through Housing and Urban Development to start the HEART program which offers 100 permanent housing scattered site locations in Hillsborough County
ACTS assumes control over the Polk Juvenile Assessment Center in Bartow
ACTS Purchases Firemen’s Hall, which will be renovated in 2022 to become first psychosocial clubhouse for adults seeking mental health recovery in Hillsborough County when it opens in 2023
ACTS opens Intermediate Care Program at Sandra Prince Samaritan Home
ACTS activated its pandemic alert plan due to the impact of COVID-19
ACTS opens Intermediate Care Program at 131st location
ACTS completed construction of the ACTS Clubhouse, which opened its doors to members on Nov. 1. ACTS also moved all Wraparound Housing beds to the Drew Park campus, and opened a residential treatment program in Tampa on Nebraska Ave.
ACTS opened a Therapeutic Group Home at the former Juvenile Addictions Receiving Facility location (JARF and the AARF are now co-located at 50th Street in Tampa to) serve area’s most vulnerable youth. ACTS administration moved from 56th Street to new location at Buschwood Park in Tampa, and started rolling out a new logo highlighting the positive impact we make on the lives of the people we serve.