Navigating the ODARA
(The Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment)
Description
Please join us on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 11:00 am (2-hour meeting) to learn strategies to assist in conducting an ODARA assessment. At this meeting, we will hear from Johnnie Trujillo former Chief of Police Socorro Police Department and current Executive Director of El Puente del Socorro.
What is the ODARA?
The ODARA is an actuarial risk assessment that calculates how a man who has assaulted his female partner ranks among similar perpetrators with respect to risk. It also calculates the likelihood that he will assault a female partner again in the future. The 13 ODARA items include domestic and non- domestic criminal history, threats and confinement during the index incident, children in the relationship, substance abuse, and barriers to victim support. Each is scored 0,1, or "?" (Unknown).The ODARA Score is then adjust according to ODARA's Scale for "Yes-es" and "Unknowns"." this is considered the Offender's final "ODARA Score". score passed on a scale that credits unknowns. For example if you have a raw score of 4 (4 "Yes") and 2 unknows ("?") your ODARA scores jumps to a "5".
The ODARA is known to be valid when predicting violence in marriage or common-law relationships (including any period of cohabitation), or former relationships of this nature. It has been cross-validated in studies using police, probation, and criminal record files. The most direct application of the ODARA, then, is assessing the risk of domestic violence recidivism posed by a man who has come to the attention of police for assault against his wife, common-law wife, ex-wife, or ex-common-law wife, using criminal justice documentation. Another suitable application is advising a woman about the risk her current or former husband or common-law husband faces of coming into contact with the police again for an incident of wife assault.
Scoring the Client from information obtained from only the Survivor.
Scoring the Client from information obtained from only the Client.
Scoring the Client with access to Police Reports.
Scoring the Client with access to the Client’s Criminal information DATA.
Methods of obtaining DATA pertaining to the Client’s Criminal History.
Methods of obtaining Police Reports.
Facilitator
Johnnie Trujillo is the Executive Director of El Puente del Socorro. El Puente del Socorro is a Domestic Violence Service Provider for Victim/Survivors and children, along with being a certified Domestic Violence Offender Treatment and Intervention Program provider. Johnnie is a New Mexico State Approved BIP Facilitator. Johnnie has been the Executive Director of El Puente for 21 years. Prior to joining El Puente, Johnnie was a Law Enforcement Officer for 24 years with the Socorro Police Department. Johnnie retired in 2000 having served the last 10 years of his tenure as the Chief of Police. Johnnie has also been a Certified New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy Instructor is several advanced law enforcement related fields. Johnnie holds Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and a Masters degree in Administration of Justice and Security.