What is a risk assessment?

The Blaine County Juvenile Probation Department currently uses the Positive Achievement Change Tool (PACT) as a tool to determine level of risk to re-offend, or the likelihood that the young person will have further formal court involvement. Information from the interview with the young person and his/her parent(s) as well as collateral contacts (school, counselors, law enforcement) is used to administer the PACT.

The PACT also provides on risk factors (areas that make it more likely that a young person will re-offend) as well as protective factors (areas that make it less likely that a young person will reoffend).

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