Evaluation Program
Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center is now offering an Evaluation Program. As with all services, CIJDC strives to offer the absolute best for children, families, communities and customers.
Saves Time - Youth participating in this program receive evaluations while in detention - NOT waiting for a bed at another evaluation program
Saves Money - For Counties who use another detention center the daily rate WITH the EVALUATION is CHEAPER
Everyone Benefits - Workers receive a detailed, professional evaluation that gives an in depth look into helping the youth in the future
For Additional Information on the program and rates please contact:
eval@cijdc.com
Referral Process
Child must meet detention placement criteria.
Child must be court ordered to DETENTION for their entire stay at CIJDC. This order must be submitted prior to placement.
Call CIJDC and refer to any staff member.
Submit your transportation request over the phone or email to transportation@cijdc.com
- Out-Patient Evaluations Available:
We offer individual component evaluations, see below
Funds accepted are; COS, PSSF, DECAT, Private Pay (Please no private checks)
All evaluations are done at CIJDC and can be completed in less time than other professional evaluations
Spanish Speaking Psychologist
Transportation available, call for details
Components of the Evaluation Program:
- Background and social history
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Psychological assessment
- Behavior and Emotional Screening System (BESS)
- Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)
- Quick Neurological Screening Test-3 (QNST-3)
- Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence - 2nd Ed. (WASI-II)
- Stress Inventory for Parents of Adolescents (SIPA)
- Sex offender assessment, if needed
- Risk-Sophistication- Treatment Inventory (RSTI)
- Multiphasic Sex Inventory Second Ed. (MSI-II)
- Academic assessment through our psychologist and in collaboration with AEA 267 staff
- Medical and Dental assessment
- Substance abuse assessment
- Adolescent Alcohol and Drug Involvement Scale (AADIS)
- Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST)
- Behavioral summary for the evaluation period. The juvenile will also attend school, group, and recreation.
- A recommendation regarding further treatment and placement
- 30 Day Evaluation: A base level inpatient evaluation that will be completed roughly in a 30 day time period for a youth. It will include screeners (neurological, psychological, medical (nurse), educational, trauma, etc.) and additional follow-up testing as needed. They include a Full Scale IQ, Parent Interview, Staff/Teacher ratings of the youth, and may include further risk assessment time permitting. Psychiatric component to be included in the near future.
- Psychosexual: Can be completed on an outpatient (adult or youth) or inpatient (youth only) capacity, includes the components of the base level evaluation above, but not the psychiatric unless an inpatient case. Further risk assessment is included in terms of thorough psychosexual history, assessment of risk for problematic internet sexual behavior, assessment of risk for re-offense, assessment for targets of attraction, and screeners for potential paraphilias and sexual disorders. The type of risk assessment tools utilized vary depending on the client’s developmental level. If the client is an adult, case dependent, collateral interviews with their children, children’s caregivers, may be needed. Can be completed at different stages such as initial evaluation, treatment progress review, and end of treatment review for potential of level of care or sex offender registry recommendations. Recommendations may include level of liberalization of visits/parent contact if applicable.
- Competency: Can be completed on an outpatient (adult or youth) or inpatient (youth only) capacity, includes the components of the base level evaluation above, but not the psychiatric unless an inpatient case. Further risk assessment is included in terms of additional academic testing, risk the client is malingering (faking bad), assessment of client’s capacity to understand legal proceeding/charges against him/assist with their defense/identify the different between right and wrong, etc., and use of additional tools to weigh out reality testing/personality disorders/trauma that could be affecting a client’s ability to demonstrate competence in court. If applicable screening for autism spectrum disorders is included.
- Psychological: Can be completed on an outpatient (adult or youth) or inpatient (youth only) capacity, includes the components of the base level evaluation above (A base level evaluation that will include screeners (neurological, psychological, educational, trauma, etc.) and additional follow-up testing as needed. They include a Full Scale IQ), but not the psychiatric. Adult evaluations also include occupational testing, assessment of activities of daily life, additional malingering testing if applicable, and risk for re-offense as applicable time permitting. Recommendations will not include level of liberalization of visits/parent contact if this is an adult with children.
- Parenting Assessment: A base level outpatient evaluation that can be completed for a parent (both those who are adults or minors) that will include screeners (neurological, psychological, educational, trauma, etc.) and additional follow-up testing as needed. They include a Full Scale IQ), but not the psychiatric. Adult evaluations also include occupational testing, assessment of activities of daily life, additional malingering testing if applicable, and risk for re-offense as applicable time permitting. In addition the parents’ relationships with their children will be assessed in terms of a 12 factor behavioral model through a one hour observation of a parent with all of their children (20 minutes together/20 minutes separate/20 minutes together unless there is a no contact order), self-rating forms for themselves, self-rating forms for their children’s relationship with them, individual child interviews (if developmentally appropriate), rating of all collateral information, and co-parent interview information if applicable. Recommendations will include level of liberalization of visits/parent contact.
- Autism Spectrum Evaluations: We usually price this as a psychological or competency evaluation (includes similar testing) depending on the referral question. However, the main difference is that we use the screeners for autism regardless, and spend extra time with the parents doing a more thorough interview with them about development, current functioning, and may do additional adaptive functioning testing if needed. We can also do these with adults, and may interview a primary support person instead of a parent if available.
- Psychiatric: As a stand-alone component the nurse will gather information about the client that will be reviewed by the child psychiatrist. They will then meet with the psychiatrist for a telehealth consultation about whether or not the client could benefit from medication management or changes if medication management is already in place. Level of care components may also be discussed in this report. Traditionally this has been for child inpatient clients.
- Substance Abuse: Risk assessment tools for problematic substance use to rule out potential of dependency, thorough history of use, and level of care recommendations for youth.
- IQ Assessment: Full Scale IQ Testing and Academic Testing for both adults and youth that can be completed on an inpatient or outpatient basis. This will also include as applicable some general behavior rating scales.
- Re-Evaluations: This is a service that is more customized with regard to type of time spent with the clients that can apply to any of these types of evaluations. Although it may seem that less work is needed given prior past testing, these evaluations typically include more risk assessment types of tools to weigh out past and current risks based on review of updated information in addition to new testing results. A specific referral question is very important, updated information gathered, and solid history of what interventions have already been attempted with the client.
*****All of the evaluations listed above can be completed in Spanish, and in other languages as well with the use of an interpreter.
****We also have many of the longer tests available on audio formatting for those with limitations in reading.
**We do not have an age range of limitations for testing, but we simply use different tools based on the client’s chronological and developmental age.
*We do not complete parenting evaluations with both parents present for the parenting observation simultaneously with the children. We used to do this but stopped (one parent escalated another, one parent was completely disengaged with the children, and there are often No Contact Orders, or third party co-parents who want to insert themselves). This makes the recommendations, especially, given that the rating tool is based on individual results, much clearer for the referral source to use in a practical way.
The following components can be offered separately:
• Parenting assessment
• Psychiatric evaluation
• Psychological assessment
• Psychosexual assessment
• Psycho-educational assessment
• Substance Abuse assessment