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CWEL & CANS exam Questions and
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Who needs a child welfare license?
Ans: Anyone who works in child welfare in Illinois
3 outcomes
Ans: Safety, Permanency, Well-being
Safety
Ans: When an assessment of available information supports
the belief that a child in a household or in custodial care is not
in immediate (near future) danger of moderate to severe harm.
Risk
Ans: Likelihood of any degree of longer-term future
harm/maltreatment. It does not predict when the future harm
might occur, but rather the likelihood of it happening at all.
There are many similarities between safety and risk concerns.
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Ans: Concern a prediction of harm
Describe potentially harmful home conditions
Describe potentially harmful family member/caretaker behavior
Describe potentially harmful family interactions
Can change quickly
Can often be controlled by family strengths or change in
circumstances
Can be addressed with interventions
May require alternate placement
Home Safety Checklist
Ans: Fire and Burns
Automobiles
Sleeping/Suffocation
Drowning
Violence
Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)
Ans: One tool for assessing risk
SACWIS Risk Assessment
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Ans: Used by the Child Protection Specialist includes selected
CANS items. It is a family-based assessment so factors are
rated once for the entire family.
Family conditions that increase the likelihood of child abuse and
neglect
Ans: Substance Abuse/Chemical Dependence
Domestic Violence
Parental Mental Illness
Parental Developmental Disabilities
The Recovery Matrix
Ans: Lists progress in substance abuse treatment and in parent
responsibilities
Differences between safety and risk concerns
Ans: Time
Degree of Harm
Purpose of Intervention
Permanency
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Ans: A continuous living arrangement designed to meet a
child's needs, increases sense of emotional well -being, and
establish legal bonds to a place and family
Orphan Train
Ans: 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
Ans: -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
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CWEL & CANS exam Questions and
Correct Answers/ Latest Update / Already
Graded
Who needs a child welfare license?
Ans: Anyone who works in child welfare in Illinois
3 outcomes
Ans: Safety, Permanency, Well-being
Safety
Ans: When an assessment of available information supports
the belief that a child in a household or in custodial care is not
in immediate (near future) danger of moderate to severe harm.
Risk
Ans: Likelihood of any degree of longer-term future
harm/maltreatment. It does not predict when the future harm
might occur, but rather the likelihood of it happening at all.
There are many similarities between safety and risk concerns.
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Ans: Concern a prediction of harm
Describe potentially harmful home conditions
Describe potentially harmful family member/caretaker behavior
Describe potentially harmful family interactions
Can change quickly
Can often be controlled by family strengths or change in
circumstances
Can be addressed with interventions
May require alternate placement
Home Safety Checklist
Ans: Fire and Burns
Automobiles
Sleeping/Suffocation
Drowning
Violence
Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)
Ans: One tool for assessing risk
SACWIS Risk Assessment
All rights reserved © 2025/ 2026 |
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Ans: Used by the Child Protection Specialist includes selected
CANS items. It is a family-based assessment so factors are
rated once for the entire family.
Family conditions that increase the likelihood of child abuse and
neglect
Ans: Substance Abuse/Chemical Dependence
Domestic Violence
Parental Mental Illness
Parental Developmental Disabilities
The Recovery Matrix
Ans: Lists progress in substance abuse treatment and in parent
responsibilities
Differences between safety and risk concerns
Ans: Time
Degree of Harm
Purpose of Intervention
Permanency
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Ans: A continuous living arrangement designed to meet a
child's needs, increases sense of emotional well -being, and
establish legal bonds to a place and family
Orphan Train
Ans: 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
Ans: -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
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