Re: strengths based youth assessment

["Jim Garbarino" <jg38@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: strengths based youth assessment

Dear Jacqueline: You could consider the list of 40 developmental assets prepared by the Search Institute  (search-institute.org)

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From: "Gail Folaron" <gfolaron@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: strengths based youth assessment
Date: Sat, Oct 5, 2002, 11:47 AM

I oversee a Community Alternative to Suspension Program (CASP) and am in need of a strengths based youth assessment that will provide the CASP Case Manager with information on the youth's psycho-social-educational strengths and challenges.  I am not certain if there is such an assessment in existence or if one could be pulled together from more than one source, but if you have ANY suggestions or could refer me to a resource that might be useful that would be GREAT!  

I have been doing some searching for such an assessment and have not had much luck.  Unfortunately, this is what is holding service up at this point, as we hope to provide some individual case management with the youth that are enrolled in the program, but do not want to move forward until we have a good way to assess the strengths and needs of the youth.

Anyway you can assist in this matter would be wonderful.  Thanks in advance for your time!


Jacqueline S. Votapek, M.S.W.
Director of Children & Youth Services
John H. Boner Community Center
2236 East Tenth Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46201
Phone: 317-633-8210 ext. 227
Fax: 317-633-3006
E-mail: jvotapek@xxxxxxx

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From: "Ineke Way"
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Re: juvenile sex offenders
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of the total sample (N = 96), 11 (11.5%) reported no history of
sexual abuse, physical abuse, or neglect

Ineke

Ineke Way, Ph.D., ACSW
Assistant Professor

School of Social Work
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5354

269/387-3195
fax 269/387-3183
ineke.way@xxxxxxxxx

>>> sherioz 10/05/02 03:05AM >>>
Ineke:

Your figures about sex offenders' history are interesting. How
many, however, did not report any abuse at all?

Sheri Oz, MSc, EMDR II, TIR, MFT
Director, Machon Eitan
Institute for the Treatment of Trauma Survivors and their Families
Kiryat Motzkin, ISRAEL


I did my dissertation research as part of a larger study with Dr.
David Burton at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. We
measured childhood maltreatment history (28 items rated on a likert
scale, with separate questions for sexual abuse, physical abuse,
neglect, emotional abuse, emotional neglect) using the Childhood
Trauma Questionnaire (Bernstein & Fink, 1998).

My dissertation data for 96 adolescents adjudicated for sexual
offending showed that 67% endorsed a history of sexual abuse, 82%
endorsed physical abuse, and 40% endorsed physical neglect.
Frequently these youths had experienced multiple forms of
maltreatment - 42% reported 2 forms of maltreatment, and 34%
reported all three forms of maltreatment (Way, 1999).