Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS) End User Training

Course overview

The Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS) is a dynamic risk needs assessment system to be used with adult offenders. It offers criminal justice actors the ability to assess individuals at various decision points across the criminal justice system. This training provides an overview of the assessment tools and techniques for administering and scoring the individual assessments. The training covers effective interviewing techniques and focuses on the community supervision assessments. In addition, the training will review how to use the scores obtained from individuals' ORAS assessments to develop case plans for reducing the risk to reoffend and meeting the identified needs of the clients in several areas including: substance use disorders, criminal attitudes and behavior patterns, and family/social support. This is a two day training. Participants must actively participate in all sessions and only those who successfully pass the post-training exam will be credentialed to administer the ORAS