CANS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE WITH SOLVED
QUESTIONS
◉ 3 outcomes.
Answer: safety, permanency, well-being
◉ Safety.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Answer: Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
◉ Federal Laws:
Social Security Act.
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.
Answer: Requires federal funding for family support services
, ◉ Social Security Title IV-E.
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).
Answer: Addresses the best interests of Native American Children to
preserve their generational and tribal ties
◉ Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA).
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).
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.
Answer: extends assistance of youth to 21
requires that a transition plan be developed with youth and he/she
ages out of foster care
QUESTIONS
◉ 3 outcomes.
Answer: safety, permanency, well-being
◉ Safety.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Answer: Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
◉ Federal Laws:
Social Security Act.
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.
Answer: Requires federal funding for family support services
, ◉ Social Security Title IV-E.
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).
Answer: Addresses the best interests of Native American Children to
preserve their generational and tribal ties
◉ Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA).
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).
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.
Answer: extends assistance of youth to 21
requires that a transition plan be developed with youth and he/she
ages out of foster care
