DCFS Child Welfare EXAM STUDY GUIDE
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
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1. DCFS MISSION STATEMENT - ANSWER ✔ 1.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
3.Provide appropriate, permanent families quickly
support early intervention and child abuse prevention-strengthen families
work in partnerships with the communites
2. SACWIS risk assessment - ANSWER ✔ it includes CANS, it is a family
based assessment so factors are rated ONCE for the entire family
3. Domains of CANS - ANSWER ✔ one domain relates to trauma experiences
and track trauma throughout life. the other domains relate to current needs
and strengths
4. Timeline integrated - ANSWER ✔ initial service plans should be completed
within 45 days after case opening and must be reviewed at least once every 3
months
5. Who sets permanency goals - ANSWER ✔ The Court
,6. when can Independence be - ANSWER ✔ 15 years or older
7. Poor Prognosis - ANSWER ✔ at risk for long-term placement
8. Expedited termination parental rights - ANSWER ✔ the maltreatment of
children is so egregious that efforts should not be made to preserve the
family
9. ACR - ANSWER ✔ Administrative case review
required for placement cases every 6 months by DCFS policy & produceds
10.Court personnel - ANSWER ✔ judges, states attorney(assist), guardian ad
litem, court reporters, circuit clerks, respondents attorneys, court appointed
special advocacy
11.Types of hearing - ANSWER ✔ legal screenings, status hearings,
dispositional hearings, permanency hearings
12.Adjudication - ANSWER ✔ occur within 90 days after temporary custody
hearing. judge decide if evidence show abuse
13.Disposition - ANSWER ✔ occurs within 30 days of adjudication hearing
judge hears testimony review evidence
14.Age of case closure - ANSWER ✔ 19 or if continued to 21
,15.The length of time reports are kept on file - ANSWER ✔ 50 years - death of
child or sexual penetration
20 years- serious physical injury, sexual molestation, sexual exploitation of
kids
5 years- all other indicated reports
16.C.C.C - ANSWER ✔ Cooperation, comply, correction
Dual Mandate - ANSWER ✔ Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve
families
17.Permanency Iniative - ANSWER ✔ to achieve safe, permanent homes for
foster children
18.IEPA : Inter-Ethnic Placement Act - ANSWER ✔ Passed in 1996; prevents
discrimination based on race or ethincity
19.ANCRA - Abuse and Neglect Child Reporting Act - ANSWER ✔ allegation
system embedded within it
20.Children and Family Service Act - ANSWER ✔ gave DCFS its authority
21.Child Care Act - ANSWER ✔ making sure they have met certain standards
22.Junvenile Court Act - ANSWER ✔ allows for children to not be placed in
jail with adult criminals
23.Social Security Act - IVB - ANSWER ✔ general child services
, 24.Social Security Act - IVE - ANSWER ✔ Specific to foster care
25.Consent Decrees - ANSWER ✔ 8 of them. States and DCFS bound by the
decrees, but are not laws
26.Aristotle P. VS McDonald - ANSWER ✔ asks that we try to place the
sibilings children together whenever possible, except during certain
exceptions.
27.Bates VS McDonald - ANSWER ✔ provides weekly parent-child visits with
a return home goal; establish visitation plans at home
28.Concurrent Planning - ANSWER ✔ process by which the child welfare
professional develops a plan and works toward family reunification while, at
the same time, developing an alternative plan for a target case for a child
who has been identified as unlikely to be reunified with its parents, in an
effort to provide a permanent home for the child
29.Order of placement when protective custody is needed - ANSWER ✔ -
placement with non-custodial parents
-placement with siblings in care
-placement with other relatives
-placement with foster caregiver
30.Piaget's theory of cognitive development - ANSWER ✔ sensorimotor (0-2),
problem solving preoperational (2-4), increased speech/symbolic play/object
permanence intuitive (4-7), social speech/concepts growing/reality not
firm/concrete operations (7-11), logical thought/less egocentric formal
operations (11-15) abstract thinking
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. DCFS MISSION STATEMENT - ANSWER ✔ 1.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
3.Provide appropriate, permanent families quickly
support early intervention and child abuse prevention-strengthen families
work in partnerships with the communites
2. SACWIS risk assessment - ANSWER ✔ it includes CANS, it is a family
based assessment so factors are rated ONCE for the entire family
3. Domains of CANS - ANSWER ✔ one domain relates to trauma experiences
and track trauma throughout life. the other domains relate to current needs
and strengths
4. Timeline integrated - ANSWER ✔ initial service plans should be completed
within 45 days after case opening and must be reviewed at least once every 3
months
5. Who sets permanency goals - ANSWER ✔ The Court
,6. when can Independence be - ANSWER ✔ 15 years or older
7. Poor Prognosis - ANSWER ✔ at risk for long-term placement
8. Expedited termination parental rights - ANSWER ✔ the maltreatment of
children is so egregious that efforts should not be made to preserve the
family
9. ACR - ANSWER ✔ Administrative case review
required for placement cases every 6 months by DCFS policy & produceds
10.Court personnel - ANSWER ✔ judges, states attorney(assist), guardian ad
litem, court reporters, circuit clerks, respondents attorneys, court appointed
special advocacy
11.Types of hearing - ANSWER ✔ legal screenings, status hearings,
dispositional hearings, permanency hearings
12.Adjudication - ANSWER ✔ occur within 90 days after temporary custody
hearing. judge decide if evidence show abuse
13.Disposition - ANSWER ✔ occurs within 30 days of adjudication hearing
judge hears testimony review evidence
14.Age of case closure - ANSWER ✔ 19 or if continued to 21
,15.The length of time reports are kept on file - ANSWER ✔ 50 years - death of
child or sexual penetration
20 years- serious physical injury, sexual molestation, sexual exploitation of
kids
5 years- all other indicated reports
16.C.C.C - ANSWER ✔ Cooperation, comply, correction
Dual Mandate - ANSWER ✔ Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve
families
17.Permanency Iniative - ANSWER ✔ to achieve safe, permanent homes for
foster children
18.IEPA : Inter-Ethnic Placement Act - ANSWER ✔ Passed in 1996; prevents
discrimination based on race or ethincity
19.ANCRA - Abuse and Neglect Child Reporting Act - ANSWER ✔ allegation
system embedded within it
20.Children and Family Service Act - ANSWER ✔ gave DCFS its authority
21.Child Care Act - ANSWER ✔ making sure they have met certain standards
22.Junvenile Court Act - ANSWER ✔ allows for children to not be placed in
jail with adult criminals
23.Social Security Act - IVB - ANSWER ✔ general child services
, 24.Social Security Act - IVE - ANSWER ✔ Specific to foster care
25.Consent Decrees - ANSWER ✔ 8 of them. States and DCFS bound by the
decrees, but are not laws
26.Aristotle P. VS McDonald - ANSWER ✔ asks that we try to place the
sibilings children together whenever possible, except during certain
exceptions.
27.Bates VS McDonald - ANSWER ✔ provides weekly parent-child visits with
a return home goal; establish visitation plans at home
28.Concurrent Planning - ANSWER ✔ process by which the child welfare
professional develops a plan and works toward family reunification while, at
the same time, developing an alternative plan for a target case for a child
who has been identified as unlikely to be reunified with its parents, in an
effort to provide a permanent home for the child
29.Order of placement when protective custody is needed - ANSWER ✔ -
placement with non-custodial parents
-placement with siblings in care
-placement with other relatives
-placement with foster caregiver
30.Piaget's theory of cognitive development - ANSWER ✔ sensorimotor (0-2),
problem solving preoperational (2-4), increased speech/symbolic play/object
permanence intuitive (4-7), social speech/concepts growing/reality not
firm/concrete operations (7-11), logical thought/less egocentric formal
operations (11-15) abstract thinking
