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National Clearinghouse on Homeless Youth and Families

Search Screening & Assessment Tools for RHY Programs


library searchThis web page helps you easily search and access screening and assessment tools relevant to serving youth and young adults. It allows you to search by various criteria to narrow a review of some 120 plus tools. After entering your search criteria, click the "Apply" button and the results will display in a table below and in a spreadsheet you can download by clicking the "CSV" button.

These screening and assessment tools have been compiled by NCHYF to assist youth-serving programs in reviewing and assessing the needs of youth, young adults, and children, relevant to the Division of Runaway and Homeless Youth’s Performance Standards. The tools listed in this database have been pre-screened for relevance but are not endorsed by the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) and the information contained herein is not an exhaustive list.

Title Subject Population Age Required Reading Level Language Qualifications required for staff to administer the tool? Cost of materials free,$- $0 to 99,$$- $100 to199,$$$- $200 & up
Pediatric Symptom Checklist- 35 (PSC-35) Mental Health and Overall Well-Being 4 - 18 Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Dutch, English, Farsi, Filipino, French, German, Hatian-Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Malayalam, Nepali, Norgwegian, Persian, Pictorial with English subtitles, Pictorial with Filipino subtitles, Pictorial with Spanish subtitles, Portuguese (Brazilian-American), Portuguese (European), Russian, Setswana, Somali, Spanish, Spanish (Chilean), Ukrainian, Vietnamese

No

Free
Screen for Childhood Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) Mental Health and Overall Well-Being 8 - 18 English

No

Free
Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire – Revised (SBQ-R) Suicide 13 - 100 English

No

Free
Protective Factors Survey, 2nd Edition (PFS-2) Resiliency, Trauma 14 - 26 English

No

Free
Protective Factors Survey (PFS) Resiliency, Trauma 14 - 26 English

No

Free
Child Exposure to Domestic Violence Scale (CEDV) Resiliency, Trauma 10 - 16 English

No

Free
Short Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Rating Interview – 4 Items (SPRINT–4 PTSD) Mental Health and Overall Well-Being 18 - 85 English

No

Free
Coping Self-Efficacy Scale (CSE) Mental Health and Overall Well-Being 12 - 26 English

No

Free
Adult Human Trafficking Screening Tool (AHTST) Human Trafficking 18 - 100 English, Spanish

No

Free