Reassessment allows the agency to re-run an assessment on a client or group of clients in order to identify current needs and monitor their progress over time. For example, the agency may reassess a client in order to measure his progress in achieving self sufficiency across factors that have previously been marked as a priority in the initial assessment.
If the reassessment is assessing a group of clients, i.e. Questions are asked of the entire group, only clients that are part of the original assessment group can be reassessed. For example, if three clients were assessed as part of the original assessment, only these three clients can be reassessed. If the reassessment is assessing clients individually, clients who were not assessed in the initial assessment can be assessed in the reassessment.
During reassessment, a caseworker has the option to reassess the client or client group across all of the factors that were assessed during the original assessment or across a subset of factors only. For example, if the original assessment was run across factors of substance abuse, social support, and domestic violence factors, the case worker may decide to only reassess the client across the substance abuse and domestic violence factors because the client achieved a sufficient score for the social support factor when the initial assessment was first run.
If priority factors are applicable to the assessment, on running a reassessment, new priority factors can be selected from the reassessment results. For example, if the reassessment results show that a client has achieved sufficiency in a factor that was previously marked as a priority when the original assessment was run, the caseworker may decide to concentrate on new priority factors on reassessment, i.e., factors for which the client achieved the lowest scores on reassessment.
If the assessment has been configured to allow role changes during reassessment, on initiating the reassessment, a case worker can update the roles played by the clients on the assessment if necessary. For example, if James Smith is assigned the role of primary caregiver and Linda Smith is assigned the role of the secondary caregiver when a CSN assessment is first run and after the assessment, Linda Smith becomes the Primary Caregiver, the case worker can change the client who satisfies the role of the primary caregiver for reassessment purposes.