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Illinois child welfare fundamentals
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1. Serve as an agent of change
2. Form a helping relationship with the child and his or her family
3. Conduct initial and ongoing assessment
4. Provide information about the impact of trama on the child and
family
5. Advocate for the child and family
6. Provide behavioral support
7. Linkage to appropriate services
8. Coordinate all child and family sevices
9. Demonstrate cultural competence
Ans: nine core child welfare practices
ACES
Ans: Adverse childhood experiences
Orphan train movement
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Ans: Placed as many as 150,000 children from eastern cities,
orphans or children feom poor families, with midwest farm
families
1.settlement movement
Ans: 1.settlement movement
Children's Bureau
Ans: Was established in 1920. The first federal agency
comcerned with the welfare of children.
Amendment in 1939 that made federal funds avaliable for services to
children
Ans: social security act titleIV-b
Department of Children and Family Services
Ans: Was created in January 1, 1964 by the illinois legislature
so the state assumed fundamental responsibility for
safeguarding all illinois children and families
Dual mandate
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Ans: Protecting children and supporting families
mission of the Department of children and family services
Ans: safety, well being, permanent families
Social Security Act Title IV-B
Ans: reasonable efforts must be made to prevent a child from
entering foster care, and to reunify a child with the child' s
family-parents make reasonable progress
Safe haven law
Ans: Allows an infant no more than 30 days old to be
relinquished to a hospital, police station, or emergency medical
facility without question or consequence to the parent.
IEPA
Ans: inter-ethnic placement act- prohibits any consideration of
children's race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which
permanent placement will be in the best insterest
Social Security Act Title IV-E
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Ans: reasonable efforts to move children to permanency
fits vision statement
Ans: partnering with families in making decisions, setting
goals,and achieving desired outcomes family importance,
usable strengths, identifying, the effects of adverse traumatic
experiences
family centered, trauma informed, strength based practice fts
Ans: connected to parents use trauma lens and impact of
trauma on behavior and development strength based build
strengths when planning
cftm
Ans: child and family team meeting
planning for permanency
Ans: is the focus of all child and family meetings
engagement
full disclosure
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Illinois child welfare fundamentals
Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest
Update / Already Graded
1. Serve as an agent of change
2. Form a helping relationship with the child and his or her family
3. Conduct initial and ongoing assessment
4. Provide information about the impact of trama on the child and
family
5. Advocate for the child and family
6. Provide behavioral support
7. Linkage to appropriate services
8. Coordinate all child and family sevices
9. Demonstrate cultural competence
Ans: nine core child welfare practices
ACES
Ans: Adverse childhood experiences
Orphan train movement
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Ans: Placed as many as 150,000 children from eastern cities,
orphans or children feom poor families, with midwest farm
families
1.settlement movement
Ans: 1.settlement movement
Children's Bureau
Ans: Was established in 1920. The first federal agency
comcerned with the welfare of children.
Amendment in 1939 that made federal funds avaliable for services to
children
Ans: social security act titleIV-b
Department of Children and Family Services
Ans: Was created in January 1, 1964 by the illinois legislature
so the state assumed fundamental responsibility for
safeguarding all illinois children and families
Dual mandate
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Ans: Protecting children and supporting families
mission of the Department of children and family services
Ans: safety, well being, permanent families
Social Security Act Title IV-B
Ans: reasonable efforts must be made to prevent a child from
entering foster care, and to reunify a child with the child' s
family-parents make reasonable progress
Safe haven law
Ans: Allows an infant no more than 30 days old to be
relinquished to a hospital, police station, or emergency medical
facility without question or consequence to the parent.
IEPA
Ans: inter-ethnic placement act- prohibits any consideration of
children's race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which
permanent placement will be in the best insterest
Social Security Act Title IV-E
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Ans: reasonable efforts to move children to permanency
fits vision statement
Ans: partnering with families in making decisions, setting
goals,and achieving desired outcomes family importance,
usable strengths, identifying, the effects of adverse traumatic
experiences
family centered, trauma informed, strength based practice fts
Ans: connected to parents use trauma lens and impact of
trauma on behavior and development strength based build
strengths when planning
cftm
Ans: child and family team meeting
planning for permanency
Ans: is the focus of all child and family meetings
engagement
full disclosure
All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 |
