"We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things."
Stephen Hawking

About ACMH

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We Think of Community as a State of the Heart.

Every day, ACMH serves hundreds of people in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Helping those in need develop skills to care for themselves, find housing they need to be safe, and cultivate a network of support to succeed is the manifestation of kindness.

ACMH has been facilitating a wide range of support to people with mental illness for more than 50 years.

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ACMH provides outreach and engagement, care coordination, peer support, supportive housing and rehabilitation to adults with serious mental illness, and promotes access to treatment, employment, and other supports and services according to an individualized plan that addresses a client’s strengths, needs, goals, and choices.

Services include assessment, supportive counseling, medication monitoring and training in independent self-administration of medication, training in skills for daily living, training in wellness self-management, alcohol and substance use relapse prevention, health education and linkages, vocational readiness skills building, assistance in accessing entitlement benefits, referral, and care coordination.

About ACMH

ACMH, a not-for-profit corporation established in 1973, is committed to the mental and physical wellbeing of vulnerable New Yorkers.

ACMH services reduce hospitalization, incarceration and homelessness by facilitating increased participation in wellness self-management, engagement with outpatient care, and connection to social, peer and natural supports, education, and employment.

ACMH annually serves more than 2,000 unique individuals and households in:

Treatment Apartment Programs

Licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH), providing case management and psychosocial rehabilitation in leased apartments in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.

Transitional Community Residences

Licensed by OMH to serve adults with a serious mental illness who are formerly homeless or leaving hospitals, State psychiatric centers or incarceration.

• St. Hilda’s House in Hamilton Heights.
• Independence House in Washington Heights.
• Garden House in the East Village.
• Convent Avenue Residence in Harlem.
• Sabra Goldman House in Queens Village.
• 74 Avenue A in Queens Village.

Additional Community Residences are currently in development.

Permanent Affordable Housing

Provide on-site services for adults with serious mental illness. At Markus Gardens and E. 144th Street, there are additional supports for young adults, ages 18-25, to promote positive young adult development.

• Markus Gardens in Jamaica, Queens.
• E. 144th Street Affordable Housing in Mott Haven in the Bronx.
• Ana’s House in the Morrisania section of the Bronx.
• The Wilfrid in the Tremont section of the Bronx.
• Ryer Avenue Apartments in the Mount Hope section of the Bronx.
• The Grand in the Mount Hope section of the Bronx.

Additional supportive and affordable housing projects are currently in development.

Supportive Apartment Programs

Funded by OMH and the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), offer permanent housing with supportive case management in leased apartments throughout Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.

Residential Crisis Support (Respite)

Locations in Washington Heights and the East Village offering respite for guests experiencing a mental health crisis or transitioning from hospitalization in a home-like setting with round the clock peer support.

ACMH Care Management Services

Under contract with Medicaid Health Homes and DOHMH, assist adults to manage chronic mental health, substance use, and medical conditions through community outreach, engagement, and care coordination.

Critical Time Intervention

Multidisciplinary mental health teams provide intensive outreach, engagement, care coordination and housing placement to homeless and hospitalized adults.

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

Mobile multidisciplinary mental health team offering treatment, rehabilitation, case management and support services in the Bronx.

OUR MISSION

ACMH is committed to the mental and physical wellbeing of vulnerable New Yorkers.

Our Vision

Empower

Empower everyone whose life we touch to achieve goals important to them

Lead

Be a benchmark for quality and innovation in everything we do

Employ

Be a workplace of choice

Grow

Expand to serve more people in more communities

Promote

Create an intentional culture of antiracism that promotes actionable change at individual, interpersonal and institutional levels

Our Values

Teamwork

Professionalism

Mutual Respect

Continuous Learning

Equity

Commitment To Excellence

Inclusion

ACMH is committed to becoming an anti-racist organization by promoting justice and equity. We are intentional in creating a culture of equity at individual, interpersonal and institutional levels while addressing racism, within and external to ACMH.

Through advocacy, ongoing training, and community partnerships, ACMH strives to end all forms of systemic racism while challenging unconscious bias, addressing racial disparities and creating equal opportunities for staff members and clients.

At ACMH, we strive to hear and learn from each other in an effort to combat hate and reject it in all its forms.