The JCP Reassessment can
be used by juvenile justice agencies as an instrument to determine a youth’s
risk to re-offend. This tool supplements the JCP Screen/Assessment (also a tool
that determines youth’s risk to offend) by taking into account how supervision,
treatment, and the youth’s response to supervision and treatment may impact his
or her current behavior. The risk and
protective indicators on the Reassessment parallel those on the
Screen/Assessment; therefore, the general guideline is to base a Reassessment
off of the Screen/Assessment. However,
if your agency is doing regular Interim Reviews, you can base the Reassessment
off of the Interim Review[1].
Local Decisions & Actions
v Counties need to make the JCP
Reassessment one of their default assessment options so that users will see
“JCP Reassessment” when they select “assessments” for a youth
v
The
Reassessment instrument was designed to be somewhat flexible in its use. This
flexibility, however, means that county programs must first make several
decisions before having their staff implement and use the Reassessment. These decisions (made by your Juvenile
Director) should include:
q How often and when a Reassessment should be
conducted by your agency
q Which of the two categories of risk levels the
department wishes to use[2]
(options are defined in the table below)
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Default Scoring |
Alternative Scoring |
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Low Risk |
4 or fewer risks |
Low Risk |
5 or fewer risks |
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Medium-Low Risk |
5-8 risks |
Medium Risk |
6-13 risks |
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Medium-High Risk |
9-13 risks |
High Risk |
14+ risks |
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High Risk |
14+ risks |
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q What constitutes “technical terms of
probation/supervision” must be defined by your agency (item 16.1); see FAQ’s
page 3.
q Your agency must decide how it will define
“sanctions” (item 17.1)
q Your agency must decide how it will define skill
development activities (item 18.1).
q Your agency must decide what to include as
treatment options (18.2)
q NOTE: Examples of Pilot County Definitions to
17.1, 18.1, and 18.2 are below.
Examples of Pilot
County 1
Accountability Sanction:
community services, restitution, Project Payback work crew, Forest Camp,
Skill Development: Save Our Youth
Program (Conflict Resolution), Anger Management, Gender Specific skill-building
groups, employment training program,
Treatment: Drug and Alcohol
Inpatient/Outpatient, MST, SRTP (Secure Residential Treatment Program for sex
offenders), etc.
County 2
Accountability Sanction:
community services, restitution, house arrest, fines/fees
Skill Development: Anger
Management, Gender Specific skill-building groups, Cognitive
Restructuring
Treatment: Drug and Alcohol
Inpatient/Outpatient, DBT, Mental Health Inpatient/ Outpatient, Juvenile
Risk Reduction Treatment program (sex offender outpatient)
Accountability
Sanction:
Community service work crews, restitution, theft talk, detention
Skill Development: Girl's group, Young Men's Work, Life skills
groups
Treatment: Outpatient and inpatient D & A treatment, Mental
health counseling,
Accessing the Reassessment (Quick Steps)
1.
Search for a
youth or work from your caseload
2.
Bring up
available assessments
a.
Select “JCP
Reassessment”
b.
Select a
completed assessment to “Build and Base On”
3.
Select “Build
and Base On” (see “Build and Base Assessment on a Previous Assessment” from
JJIS)
4.
Link to an
Assessment (see “Link Assessments to Prior Assessments” from JJIS)
5.
Review/Update
the original Assessment
6.
Complete the
Reassessment addendum
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: How does the Reassessment differ from the
Interim Review?
A: The primary difference is that the Interim
Review was designed to be an evaluation measure with the purpose of looking at
changes in dynamic risk indicators, whereas the Reassessment is designed to
serve as a risk to re-offend tool (that is, to provide a score/measure of a
youth’s risk to offend, which provides a guideline for the appropriate level of
supervision a youth may need).
Q: When should the Reassessment be used?
A: The use of the Reassessment will be a local
decision, however appropriate uses of the Reassessment include (1) when the
youth has a new referral, (2) when the youth has completed most of the case
plan objectives, and/or (3) if your local policy is to require a Reassessment
at specified time periods (i.e., every 4 or 6 months).
Q: How should the Reassessment be used?
A: The Reassessment is designed to be used to
(1) determine on-going level of supervision, and (2) to monitor and update the
case/service plan.
Q: How do I know which assessment for a youth to use (build and base on) if there are multiple assessments for the youth already?
A: As a general rule, select the most recent one
unless it was completed within the past month.
If the most recent prior assessment was less than 30 days ago, it may be
more appropriate to select an earlier assessment. However you should check with your local
department policy. Note: If another county completed the assessment
immediately prior to this assessment, and your department’s policy is to use
only in-county assessments, you should select the most recent in-county
assessment.
Q: What is meant by “technical terms of
probation?”
A: Technical terms of probation can be defined
as: following parental rules, paying probation fees, attending school,
attending treatment groups, and status offenses (curfew, truancy, running
away).
Q: How do I find the youth’s criminal referral
history?
A: JJIS will automatically provide you with the
youth’s most serious crime since their last assessment.
Q: I’m working on the Reassessment, but notice there is no subsequent referral for the youth. What happened?
A: First, you should check to make sure you
appropriately linked the Reassessment to a prior assessment. If you did, and the subsequent referral
section is blank, then there is no subsequent referral for the youth.
The JCP Reassessment is scheduled for statewide
implementation on
[1] Because not all risk indicators on the Screen/Assessment are asked on the Interim Review; you should fill in responses to these indicators when completing the Reassessment in order to get an accurate measure of risk to re-offend.
[2] Juvenile departments should notify JJIS which category of risk level it will use. The Risk Steering Committee and the evaluators have determined that there are a significant number of youth in the medium low risk group (5 to 8 risk indicators) who re-offend (usually with minor offenses), and are recommending that counties use the 4-level scoring system as the default for those who want to target this group