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CWEL & CANS exam Questions and Correct
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Who needs a child welfare license?
✓ -:- Anyone who works in child welfare in Illinois
3 outcomes
✓ -:- safety, permanency, well-being
Safety
✓ -:- Status when an assessment of available information supports the
belief that a child is not in immediate danger of moderate to severe harm
Permanency
✓ -:- 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
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✓ -:- 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
✓ -:- -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
✓ -:- Protect Children and Strengthen/Pre serve families
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Federal Laws:
Social Security Act
✓ -:- 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
✓ -:- Requires federal funding for family support services
Social Security Title IV-E
✓ -:- 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)
✓ -:- Addresses the best interests of Native American Children to
preserve their generational and tribal ties
Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA)
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✓ -:- 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)
✓ -:- 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
✓ -:- 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
✓ -:- specifies the general duties and responsibilities of DCFS
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA)
✓ -:- Guides the day by day work of child professionals in Illinois
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CWEL & CANS exam Questions and Correct
Answers | Latest Update
Who needs a child welfare license?
✓ -:- Anyone who works in child welfare in Illinois
3 outcomes
✓ -:- safety, permanency, well-being
Safety
✓ -:- Status when an assessment of available information supports the
belief that a child is not in immediate danger of moderate to severe harm
Permanency
✓ -:- 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
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,2024 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel!
✓ -:- 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
✓ -:- -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
✓ -:- Protect Children and Strengthen/Pre serve families
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,2024 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel!
Federal Laws:
Social Security Act
✓ -:- 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
✓ -:- Requires federal funding for family support services
Social Security Title IV-E
✓ -:- 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)
✓ -:- Addresses the best interests of Native American Children to
preserve their generational and tribal ties
Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA)
3|P a g e | G r a d e A + | 2 0 2 0 2 5
, 2024 /2025 | © copyright | This work may not be copied for profit gain Excel!
✓ -:- 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)
✓ -:- 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
✓ -:- 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
✓ -:- specifies the general duties and responsibilities of DCFS
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA)
✓ -:- Guides the day by day work of child professionals in Illinois
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