DCFS PLACEMENT EXAM 2 2026 EXAM
PREPARATION PACK KEY CHILD PROTECTION
POLICIES AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS WITH
EXPLANATIONS
◉ Fictive kin. Answer: someone who becomes accepted as part of a
family of the child to which he or she has no blood relation
◉ Relative / HMR placement. Answer: Home of a relative, place the
child in the home of a family relative, this includes godparents
◉ Concurrent Planning. Answer: Caseworker engages in active
efforts to promote family reunification and simultaneously identifies
an alternative permanency plan with the knowledge of the parent,
child, and foster parent/relative
◉ CIPP (clinical intervention for placement preservation). Answer: A
CIPP staffing is conducted to determine the array and intensity of
services needed for a child or youth whose current placement is
threatened with disruption or whose care cannot be provided for in
his/her current placement. In a CIPP staffing, the caseworker brings
together key people in the child/youth's life, with the assistance and
support of a trained facilitator who leads a discussion sensitive to
the individual needs, motivation and capabilities of the child/youth.
, Participants are encouraged to offer their assessment of the
child/youth's wishes, needs and strengths and to generate ideas on
how those wishes, needs and strengths can be best addressed,
ideally in the child/youth's current placement.
◉ Expeditated termination. Answer: It is appropriate when "the
maltreatment of children is so egregious that efforts should not be
made to preserve the family." When this occurs, the child welfare
professional should request a legal screening, and the children
should be place with families committed to permanency. expedited
termination is specified in IL law.
◉ Unusual Incident Report (UIR). Answer: If a child goes to the ER
or if one child goes to the hospital when they are in foster care, there
are procedures to fill out a UIR to report the incident that happened
and the form CFS 119-A needs to be filled to establish that the risk
has been mitigated.
◉ Random moment survey related to title IV B funding. Answer:
DCFS is governed by State and Federal that is why. (Title IV B
funding that requires to document what are we doing to receive
funding) For example, random moment survey can happen when
someone may randomly call to ask "what are we doing?" and if we
answer "doing a case plan" or any other activity related to the
agency, that will contribute to us doing something that will qualify to
justify receiving grant and money from federal bc we are doing our
job.
PREPARATION PACK KEY CHILD PROTECTION
POLICIES AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS WITH
EXPLANATIONS
◉ Fictive kin. Answer: someone who becomes accepted as part of a
family of the child to which he or she has no blood relation
◉ Relative / HMR placement. Answer: Home of a relative, place the
child in the home of a family relative, this includes godparents
◉ Concurrent Planning. Answer: Caseworker engages in active
efforts to promote family reunification and simultaneously identifies
an alternative permanency plan with the knowledge of the parent,
child, and foster parent/relative
◉ CIPP (clinical intervention for placement preservation). Answer: A
CIPP staffing is conducted to determine the array and intensity of
services needed for a child or youth whose current placement is
threatened with disruption or whose care cannot be provided for in
his/her current placement. In a CIPP staffing, the caseworker brings
together key people in the child/youth's life, with the assistance and
support of a trained facilitator who leads a discussion sensitive to
the individual needs, motivation and capabilities of the child/youth.
, Participants are encouraged to offer their assessment of the
child/youth's wishes, needs and strengths and to generate ideas on
how those wishes, needs and strengths can be best addressed,
ideally in the child/youth's current placement.
◉ Expeditated termination. Answer: It is appropriate when "the
maltreatment of children is so egregious that efforts should not be
made to preserve the family." When this occurs, the child welfare
professional should request a legal screening, and the children
should be place with families committed to permanency. expedited
termination is specified in IL law.
◉ Unusual Incident Report (UIR). Answer: If a child goes to the ER
or if one child goes to the hospital when they are in foster care, there
are procedures to fill out a UIR to report the incident that happened
and the form CFS 119-A needs to be filled to establish that the risk
has been mitigated.
◉ Random moment survey related to title IV B funding. Answer:
DCFS is governed by State and Federal that is why. (Title IV B
funding that requires to document what are we doing to receive
funding) For example, random moment survey can happen when
someone may randomly call to ask "what are we doing?" and if we
answer "doing a case plan" or any other activity related to the
agency, that will contribute to us doing something that will qualify to
justify receiving grant and money from federal bc we are doing our
job.
