IMPACT Juvenile Justice Testing and Training System
Entry-Level Testing
- IMPACT Human Relations Video Test
- IMPACT Reading Test
IMPACT is the only specifically designed, research-based, video test for the skills and attitude needed to work with juvenile offenders. This well-respected assessment tool allows managers to make hiring decisions that positively impact the environment of their facilities. IMPACT measures overall suitability for working with juvenile offenders in all job functions and provides dimensional scores that show what kind of coaching and supervision candidates will need, if hired. IMPACT is validated for use in hiring:
- Facility Officers
- Counselors
- Teachers
- Medical Staff
- Kitchen Staff
- Probation Officers
- Any other job involving close contact with juvenile offenders
Human Relations Video Test Includes:
- Supportive Approach
- Strong Adult Presence
- Motivation and Building Self-Esteem
- Emotional Self-Control
- Professional Boundaries
- Placing High Priority on Youth
- Relations with Co-Workers
Dimensional Scores
IMPACT dimensional scores provide you with an analysis of candidate response patterns. Dimensional areas reported are:
- Harshness or Aggressiveness
- Weakness or Conflict Avoidance
- Crossing Professional Boundaries
- Concern for Youth Development
- Communication Style
- Teamwork
- Reading
- Count Skills
Benefits include:
- Teamwork
- Identifying Candidates Suited to Work with Juveniles
- Identifying Top Candidates in the First Phase of Testing
- Lower Adverse Impact
- Easy Administration
- Quick Scoring Turnaround
- Dimensional Score Reports
- Reduced Cost and Hiring Time
Ergometrics' Tests are Fair, with lower adverse impact.
Content and criterion validation show a high correlation between scoring well on Ergometrics' tests and on-the-job success.
Testimonial
"Using the Ergometrics testing products greatly
enhanced our hiring process. The test results
give us much more information than we ever
had before. We now know what areas we will
need to target with follow up training that
ultimately saves us training costs."
Juvenile Detention Director
Southwest Idaho Juvenile Detention
Supervisory Exams
Promotions are among the most important and far reaching decisions that managers in juvenile justice make. Effective supervisory staff ensure consistent, high level unit functioning and they role model expected professional approach with youth. IMPACT Promote Supervisory Exam consists of a video-based employee observation component and a series of written situational judgment questions that directly measure skills necessary to become an effective supervisor and manager.
IMPACT Promote Supervisory Exam
- IMPACT Standard Exams
- IMPACT Custom Exams
IMPACT Promote scoring gives you both numerical ranking and further refined dimensional scores. Dimensional scores give you ratings in the following areas:
- Managing Performance
- Training/Career Development
- Interpersonal Relations with Staff and Customers
- Reliability/Integrity
- Communication
- Managing Conflict
- Managing Change
- Changing Role to Supervisor
- Working with Management
- Discipline and Managing Difficult Employees
- Team Development/Delegation
- Prioritization/Effective Use of Resources
Using dimensional scores helps you customize your interview process to find those candidates most suited for promotion. Additionally, dimensional scores provide helpful feedback for candidates on areas they can improve.
Custom Exams
Ergometrics' consulting team has extensive background in creating custom exam items from assigned sources, including internal documents such as department SOPs.
Impact Training
IMPACT Training addresses employee patterns that are challenging to managers, including: unnecessary harshness, boundary issues, emotional self-control and lack of caring. Each module is specifically designed to make a strong impact on new or veteran employees. IMPACT Training provides strategies, techniques and tools to help employees better understand their responsibilities when it comes to youth development. Employees improve their impact on youth and their own job satisfaction. IMPACT Training addresses the following areas:
- Staff Responsibility as Role Models and Guides
- Adult Presence and Self-Control
- Impact of Overly Harsh Response to Incidents
- Boundaries: When Staff Align with Youth
- Teaching Maturity and Responsibility to Youth
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