CWEL & CANS EXAM 2024/2025 WITH
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Who needs a child welfare license? - Precise Answer ✔✔Anyone who
works in child welfare in Illinois
3 outcomes - Precise Answer ✔✔safety, permanency, well-being
Safety - Precise Answer ✔✔Status when an assessment of available
information supports the belief that a child is not in immediate danger of
moderate to severe harm
Permanency - Precise Answer ✔✔A continuous living arrangement
designed to meet a child's needs, increases his/her sense of emotional
well-being, and establish legal bonds to a place and family
Orphan Train - Precise Answer ✔✔Placed 150,000 poor/orphan children
from eastern cities with Midwest farm families
Some of these children became members of these families, but many
were valued only as farm laborers
DCFS Mission Statement - Precise Answer ✔✔-Protect children who
are reported to be abused or neglected and to increase their families
capacity to safely care for them
,-Provide for the well-being of children in our care
-Provide appropriate, permanent families as quickly as possible for those
children who cannot safely return home
-Support early intervention and child abuse prevention services
-Work in partnership with communities to fulfill this mission
Dual Mandate - Precise Answer ✔✔Protect Children and
Strengthen/Preserve families
Federal Laws:
Social Security Act - Precise Answer ✔✔system of old-age benefits for
workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment
insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the
physically handicapped.
Social Security Title IV-B - Precise Answer ✔✔Requires federal
funding for family support services
Social Security Title IV-E - Precise Answer ✔✔Amends the SSA to
include adoption assistance and child welfare funding and requires
responsible efforts to keep children from entering care
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) - Precise Answer ✔✔Addresses the
best interests of Native American Children to preserve their generational
and tribal ties
, Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA) - Precise Answer ✔✔Prohibits any
consideration of a child's race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which
permanent placement will be in their best interest
Adoption and safe families act (ASFA) - Precise Answer ✔✔Amends
title IV-E to require efforts to move a child to permanency, requiring
judicial permanency hearing for children no later than 12 months after
the child enters child care
Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008 -
Precise Answer ✔✔extends assistance of youth to 21
requires that a transition plan be developed with youth and he/she ages
out of foster care
State Laws:
Children and Family services act - Precise Answer ✔✔specifies the
general duties and responsibilities of DCFS
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA) - Precise Answer
✔✔Guides the day by day work of child professionals in Illinois
Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters,
how to accept and investigate reports and provide follow up services
Juvenile Court Act - Precise Answer ✔✔Establishes authority of
Juvenile court to intervene in the lives of children and families
100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
Who needs a child welfare license? - Precise Answer ✔✔Anyone who
works in child welfare in Illinois
3 outcomes - Precise Answer ✔✔safety, permanency, well-being
Safety - Precise Answer ✔✔Status when an assessment of available
information supports the belief that a child is not in immediate danger of
moderate to severe harm
Permanency - Precise Answer ✔✔A continuous living arrangement
designed to meet a child's needs, increases his/her sense of emotional
well-being, and establish legal bonds to a place and family
Orphan Train - Precise Answer ✔✔Placed 150,000 poor/orphan children
from eastern cities with Midwest farm families
Some of these children became members of these families, but many
were valued only as farm laborers
DCFS Mission Statement - Precise Answer ✔✔-Protect children who
are reported to be abused or neglected and to increase their families
capacity to safely care for them
,-Provide for the well-being of children in our care
-Provide appropriate, permanent families as quickly as possible for those
children who cannot safely return home
-Support early intervention and child abuse prevention services
-Work in partnership with communities to fulfill this mission
Dual Mandate - Precise Answer ✔✔Protect Children and
Strengthen/Preserve families
Federal Laws:
Social Security Act - Precise Answer ✔✔system of old-age benefits for
workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment
insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the
physically handicapped.
Social Security Title IV-B - Precise Answer ✔✔Requires federal
funding for family support services
Social Security Title IV-E - Precise Answer ✔✔Amends the SSA to
include adoption assistance and child welfare funding and requires
responsible efforts to keep children from entering care
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) - Precise Answer ✔✔Addresses the
best interests of Native American Children to preserve their generational
and tribal ties
, Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA) - Precise Answer ✔✔Prohibits any
consideration of a child's race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which
permanent placement will be in their best interest
Adoption and safe families act (ASFA) - Precise Answer ✔✔Amends
title IV-E to require efforts to move a child to permanency, requiring
judicial permanency hearing for children no later than 12 months after
the child enters child care
Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008 -
Precise Answer ✔✔extends assistance of youth to 21
requires that a transition plan be developed with youth and he/she ages
out of foster care
State Laws:
Children and Family services act - Precise Answer ✔✔specifies the
general duties and responsibilities of DCFS
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA) - Precise Answer
✔✔Guides the day by day work of child professionals in Illinois
Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters,
how to accept and investigate reports and provide follow up services
Juvenile Court Act - Precise Answer ✔✔Establishes authority of
Juvenile court to intervene in the lives of children and families
