The Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory 2.0 (YLS/CMI 2.0) is an actuarial risk-needs assessment instrument designed to identify youths’ risk for recidivism and the risk factors potentially driving their recidivism. 

Our YLS/CMI training covers:

• adolescent development, 

• dynamic and static risk factors for youth, 

• the risk-need-responsivity framework, 

• how to conduct (including interviewing) and score the YLS/CMI, 

• exercises for scoring specific domains, 

• practice case scoring, and 

• how to use the YLS/CMI to build a risk-need-responsivity-based case plan. 

Our training is followed by helping all trainees to achieve proficiency on the YLS/CMI via post-training practice case vignettes. Trainees score the YLS/CMI for case vignettes on their own, receive our feedback, and then complete another practice case until they are scoring within a standard error of measurement on most YLS/CMI scales. 

NYSAP provides YLS/CMI certification to those who achieve an acceptable level of proficiency.