The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk for Youth (SAVRY) is a risk assessment instrument originally designed for identifying youth at risk for committing violence and the risk factors potentially driving their violence. The SAVRY’s risk level also identifies youth at risk for non-violent recidivism and institutional aggression. The SAVRY uses a structured and professional judgment approach. 

Our SAVRY training covers:

• adolescent development, 

• dynamic and static risk factors for youth,

• how to conduct the assessment (including interviewing), 

• practice case scoring, and 

• how to use the SAVRY to build a risk-need-responsivity-based case or treatment plan.

We test trainees’ proficiency on the SAVRY via post-training practice case vignettes. Trainees rate the SAVRY, receive our feedback, and then rate another case until they are achieving an acceptable level of proficiency. 

NYSAP provides SAVRY certification to attendees who achieve an acceptable level of proficiency.