Documents

Screening and Assessment

• Assessing Risk for Persons with Behavioral Health Needs (Dr. Roger Peters, May 2016)

• Broward County's Jail Population Management (American Jails, 2012)

• Health Advocate- Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) (National Health Law Program, October 2013)

• The Importance of Implementing Risk Assessment Successfully (Council of State Governments, November 2018)

• Mental Health Screens for Corrections (U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, May 2007)

• The revised Group Risk Assessment Model (GRAM 2): Assessing risk of reoffending among adults given non-custodial sanctions (Crime and Justice Bulletin, August 2016)

• Risk and Needs Assessment in the Criminal Justice System (Congressional Research Service, July 2015)

• Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System (SAMHSA, 2015)

• Self-Assessment/Planning Tool for Implementing Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Services: Version 2.0 (Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at USF, 2011)

Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (BJMHS)

• Brief Jail Mental Health Screen Form (Policy Research Associates, 2005)

• About the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen (Policy Research Associates, 2016)

• Practical Application of the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen: Johnson County, Kansas (SAMHSA's GAINS Center, March 2018)

• Brief Jail Mental Health Screen Process in Johnson County (SAMHSA's GAINS Center, March 2018)

Trauma Screening Tools

SAMHSA

• Abbreviated PCL-C (shortened version of the PTSD Checklist- Consumer Version [PCL-C]) (Lang and Stein, 2005)

• Life Events Checklist (LEC) (Blake, Weathers, Nagy, Kaloupek, Charney, & Keane, 1995)

• SAMHSA's TIP: Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services (full report can be found here)
• Appendix D Screening and Assessment Instruments – which provides a profile of 17 screening/assessment instruments

 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD

• Adult PTSD Self-Report Measures

• Child Measures of Trauma and PTSD

• PTSD Screening Instruments

• Trauma Exposure Measures