SDM resources
Information sheets
- Introducing Structured Decision Making

- Screening criteria and response priority

- Safety assessment and family risk evaluation

- Parental and child strengths and needs assessment

- Family reunification assessment and family risk re-evaluation when a child is living at home

Practice tips and resources
- Completion of Structured Decision Making assessment by work process

- Myths and facts sheet

- Developing a safety plan

- SDM Practice tips: The safety assessment

- SDM Practice tips: Family reunification assessment

SDM assessment
- Screening criteria

- Response priority

- Safety assessment

- Family risk evaluation

- Child strengths and needs assessment

- Parental strenghts and needs assessment

- Family risk re-evaluation

- Family reunification assessment

Case reading resources
Academic papers
- The Children’s Research Centre publications
- Risk assessment in care and protection: The case for actuarial approaches
- Research-based risk assessment: Adding equity to CPS decision making

- The improvement of child protective services with SDMâ„¢ - The CRC model

- Last updated
- 24 September 2009


