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CWEL & CANS Exam Questions And
Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
Who needs a child welfare license? - Answer✔Anyone who works in child welfare in Illinois
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
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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
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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
State Laws:
Children and Family services act - Answer✔specifies the general duties and responsibilities of
DCFS
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CWEL & CANS Exam Questions And
Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
Who needs a child welfare license? - Answer✔Anyone who works in child welfare in Illinois
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
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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
2|Page
, ©THESTAR 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 11:41 AM A+
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
State Laws:
Children and Family services act - Answer✔specifies the general duties and responsibilities of
DCFS
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