In 2020, Evident Change and the New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) used a collaborative, stakeholder-informed approach to conduct a participatory risk validation of the Structured Decision Making® (SDM) risk assessment.
This research brief shares highlights of participatory SDM® risk assessment validation process and a few key data considerations. A full report documents the entire research effort, study sample, research methods, and consensus-building process, while an accompanying case study shares more information on the collaborative process.