The phrase "assertive outreach to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing proactive efforts to connect with or engage a specific group or individual.
Example: "The organization implemented assertive outreach to marginalized communities to ensure they received the necessary support."
Alternatives: "proactive engagement with" or "active outreach to".
Creating treatment that is easier to access, with more frequent contacts, assertive outreach to clients between appointments, and an explicit youth-oriented culture could make services more attractive to those most in need of care.
After an investigation into completed suicides in the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) programme, the intensive case management subprogramme was developed in 2003 to provide assertive outreach to young people having a first episode of psychosis who are at high risk owing to risk to self or others, disengagement, or suboptimal recovery.
Studies from the UK and Ireland have shown that assertive outreach teams appear to be more successful than mental health care teams in engaging reluctant patients in treatment [ 53, 54].
Both CRTs and assertive outreach teams are intended to manage episodes of acute mental illness without admitting the patient to hospital.
Carpenter Luce & Wooff (2011) reported the rate of inpatient readmissions during the 2 years before AO was 83.3% and after three years of the assertive outreach program it dropped to 56.5% [ 28].
Using a quasi-experimental design, Graham and colleagues evaluated the impact of a 6 half day course of dual diagnosis which was delivered to assertive outreach teams using a whole team training approach [ 16].
Despite years of assertive outreach programs that have sought to draw talented students from underprivileged backgrounds, close to half of the university's 12,000 students are drawn from private schools, rather than the state schools that educate the vast majority of Britain's secondary school students.
One possibility for improving continuity of care is to provide assertive outreach (AO) treatment.
SP was also co-author on a case observation study in which five assertive outreach team patients were offered financial incentives to adhere to medication [ 17].
Community mental health teams and assertive outreach teams in the National Health Service aim to follow up patients with clinical risks and problematic adherence in the community, and to do this proactively and consistently over longer periods of time.
Initial studies from particularly the US and Australia, reported positive outcomes in most of these areas, which prompted UK decision makers to launch 300 Assertive Outreach teams nationwide [ 1- 3].
