We're just finishing up research on the mental health needs scale. An early review of the research shows that the mental health needs scale has both really good inter-rater reliability and also good convergent validity to other more broadly available scales in the community. Based on that research with our population, and comparing it with scales that are used in the community, we're showing really good validity for this scale.
In addition to it, the computerized mental health scale that we use on intake to screen all offenders has shown above 70% sensitivity in validity. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the U.K. says that 70% is what you need to be clinically appropriate.
Both the mental health needs scale and the computerized mental health needs scale are shown to be valid, with research done on our population.