Risk Assessment Using CANS assessment tool
well answered graded A+ 2025 updated
1. Intake determine urgency of response needed
2. investigation determine level of safety, level of risk of harm to child, interventions
needed to protect the child
3. assessment determine nature and causes of risk factors in family, family strengths
and identify most critical factors to be addressed in service plan
4. case planning determines goals and objective and services needed
5. ongoing determine progress made
assess- ment
6. CANS child & adolescent needs and
strengths assessment tool
responses lead to determining need for and level of
intervention higher need scores means services are needed
to address those needs
7. CANS domains trauma experiences (lifetime exposure)
traumatic stress symptoms
child strengths
life domain functioning
acculturation
child behavioral/emotional
needs child risk behaviors
young children age birth-
5 transition to adulthood
caregiver needs and
strengths
8. 0 on CANS score no evidence, need for action
9. 1 on CANS score watchful waiting/prevention, suspicious or emerging need, or historical
1/
5
, Risk Assessment Using CANS assessment tool
well answered graded A+ 2025 updated
need that might come back
2/
5
well answered graded A+ 2025 updated
1. Intake determine urgency of response needed
2. investigation determine level of safety, level of risk of harm to child, interventions
needed to protect the child
3. assessment determine nature and causes of risk factors in family, family strengths
and identify most critical factors to be addressed in service plan
4. case planning determines goals and objective and services needed
5. ongoing determine progress made
assess- ment
6. CANS child & adolescent needs and
strengths assessment tool
responses lead to determining need for and level of
intervention higher need scores means services are needed
to address those needs
7. CANS domains trauma experiences (lifetime exposure)
traumatic stress symptoms
child strengths
life domain functioning
acculturation
child behavioral/emotional
needs child risk behaviors
young children age birth-
5 transition to adulthood
caregiver needs and
strengths
8. 0 on CANS score no evidence, need for action
9. 1 on CANS score watchful waiting/prevention, suspicious or emerging need, or historical
1/
5
, Risk Assessment Using CANS assessment tool
well answered graded A+ 2025 updated
need that might come back
2/
5
