Sanctuary Family Centre provides a range of tailored Sexual Harmful Behaviour assessments to children and young people up to the age of 18. The assessments are delivered under the direction of our Service Manager and Responsible Individual, with support from our consultant psychologist and suitably trained staff at Sanctuary Family Centre.
Our Registered Manager with highly experienced years’ practice of working with vulnerable children, young people, and families, delivering high-quality care in a variety of settings will be very instrumental in these assessments.
AIM3 Assessment Model
The AIM3 Assessment (2019) is a research/evidence-based method of assessment and is designed to provide practitioners with a structured framework to assist in analysing the HSB in the overall context of the young person. It is designed to be used with young people aged 12-18 years who have committed, or there is strong professional evidence or belief that they have committed harmful sexual behaviours.
Harmful sexual behaviours include sexual activity that does not involve mutual consent by the individuals involved or where their relationship includes an imbalance of power, i.e. age, intellectual ability, race or physical strength and where behaviour has the potential to cause physical and/or emotional harm (G-Map, 2012).
The model is based on 5 domains: Sexual Behaviours, Non-Sexual Behaviours, Development; Family and Environment and Self-Regulation thus the model links with the Assessment Framework for Children in Need and Their Families (Department of Health, 2000) and ASSET (Youth Justice Board 2000) tool used within the Youth Justice forum (AIM2, 2012).
AIM3 provides an analysis of the young person across all of the domains in their life and the role of the HSB in these domains. The detailed analysis of each domain will help determine concerns and strengths that are present and what implications these have for immediate risk management; the safety plan and interventions with the young person and the people that care for them.
It is only through an extensive knowledge of a young person that we can begin to understand not only the reasons for their problem behaviours and consequently what needs to change, but also what might motivate change.
The AIM3 Assessment Model (2019) that is offered provides a framework for organising and conducting such assessments and analysing the wide-ranging information that is gathered so that relevant, realistic and targeted individual goals can be established. (G-Map, 2012).
AIM Initial Assessment and Intervention – Under 12 years
The AIM Assessment and Intervention model of assessment has been developed to assess and address the problematic and harmful sexual behaviours of children under the age of 12 years.