What is the iCarol Assessment Gauge, and How is it Used?
The iCarol Assessment Gauge is a highly configurable feature that is included with your core subscription to iCarol. It is most commonly used to assess two different situations: Eligibility or Risk.
What is it?
The Assessment Gauge is a series of questions you can embed into your iCarol Contact Form. Potential answers to each question are presented in a matrix format. Behind the scenes, the answers for each question have a weighted score. As a specialist goes through the assessment and marks an appropriate answer, these answers help form an overall quantitative measurement of either risk or eligibility, depending on how the form is being used.
The way you use and setup the Assessment Gauge is entirely up to your organization. Some examples of situations in which your organization might make use of the Assessment Gauge could be, but are not limited to the following:
Eligibility Assessment Examples:
- Follow-Up Eligibility
- Health Insurance Enrollment Eligibility
- Tax Assistance Eligibility
- Mobile Crisis Team Referral Eligibility
Risk Assessment Examples:
- Mental Health Intake Priority
- Suicide Risk Assessment
- Disaster Risk Assessment
- Domestic Violence Assessment
- Homeless Diversion Program Assessment
This feature has been available for several years in iCarol, however we have made updates to the tool with the Contact Forms V5 Upgrade, including:
You can choose to add the Assessment Gauge directly within an existing contact form:
Or create a new related form for assessments that only take place during a sub-set of your interactions.
You could also add the assessment in both contexts; one on the original or “parent” form, and others on related forms. It’s important to note that there can only be one assessment on each iCarol Contact Form.
How it works
As users answer the assessment questions, the gauge moves up or down depending on how the answers are weighted, something decided and set up by your organization. Below is an example of how a set of questions in a suicide assessment may add up to create the gauge shown below. Based on the weights of the answers, this person was assessed as being very high risk.
To learn more about this feature and learn how to get started with setting it up in your system, iCarol customers have access to this help article. Please open a ticket with the iCarol Support Team if you’d like additional guidance or assistance using this feature!
Tags: iCarol Assessment Gauge, Lethality Assessment, Risk Assessment, Suicide Assessment
