CWEL EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS 2026
EXAM STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
◉ helps families identify and build on their planning services.
Answer: What is the Strength-Based practice?
◉ planning for permanency. Answer: What is the focus for all Child
and Family Team Meeting?
◉ Involvement of the family in all aspects of case planning. Answer:
What is collaboration?
◉ parents select who they wan to be a part of their Child and Family
Team. Answer: What is Open Participation?
◉ Family members need to have all of the info disclosed to them so
they can make their own decisions. Answer: What is Full Disclosure?
◉ Permanency, Safety, and Well being of children Answer: What are
the fundamental outcomes of all child welfare practice?
,◉ the means by which individuals and families are helped to change
their behaviors and circumstances. Answer: What is practice?
◉ the ability to successfully balance concerns for child safety with
concerns for the emotional security and the importance of family to
children for whom safety is sought. Answer: What is the art of social
work practice?
◉ the combo of knowledge, skills, and behaviors reflect the attitudes
and values that support consistent appropriate choices of action-
leading to the child's safety, health, and well being. Answer: What
are the tasks and competencies of social work practice?
◉ Family Centered Trauma Informed and Strength Based approach,
FTS. Answer: What is the Illinois Core Practice Model anchored in?
◉ 1. Serve as an agent of change
2. Forming a helping relationship
3. Initial and Ongoing Assessment
4. Provide information about impact of trauma
5. Advocacy
6. Behavioral Support
7. Linkage
8. Coordinate
,9. Cultural Competence Answer: What are the 9 Core Child Welfare
Principles?
◉ Focuses on helping children remain connected to their parents,
extended family, and others who are significant relatives families
strengths and the importance of reflecting with family members.
Respect the rights, values, and culture of families. Answer: What is
Family Centered Practice?
◉ seeks to view kids and families with a trauma lens and
understand the impact of trauma on a child's development and
behavior. Answer: What is trauma informed practice?
◉ child and family team meetings CFTM Answer: what should be the
center of our casework?
◉ obtaining more info about the family's history and poetential
member for the child and family team. As we receive more info
about the family we will be adding to the CFS458B. Answer: what is
engagement?
◉ By Jan 1, 2000 the IDCFS and private child welfare agencies
developed and implemented a CWEL. Those providing direct child
welfare services in Illinois. Answer: Who needs a child welfare
license?
, ◉ 1. Provide us with additional opportunities to evaluate progress
towards permanency.
2. During visits, parents have the opportunity to apply newly
acquired skills and receive feedback.
3. visits also provide professional involved with the family
opportunites to identify strengths and give feedback about attempts
to utilize new parenting approaches
4. ongoing family interactions provide opportunities to help
maintain specific cultural traditions or practices that are important
to the child and family and may be support for them. Answer: What
are some benefits of child visitation?
◉ serious or critical bodily injury, wound, or shock Answer: What
does medical trauma refer to
◉ child's experience of an event that is emotionally painful,
distressful, or shocking, which often results in lasting mental and
physical effects. Answer: pyschiatrically trauma
◉ 4 out of 10 Answer: what is the ratio of children who witness
violence?
◉ 1 in 4 Answer: what ratio of kids who will experience a traumatic
event by their 16th birthday?
EXAM STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
◉ helps families identify and build on their planning services.
Answer: What is the Strength-Based practice?
◉ planning for permanency. Answer: What is the focus for all Child
and Family Team Meeting?
◉ Involvement of the family in all aspects of case planning. Answer:
What is collaboration?
◉ parents select who they wan to be a part of their Child and Family
Team. Answer: What is Open Participation?
◉ Family members need to have all of the info disclosed to them so
they can make their own decisions. Answer: What is Full Disclosure?
◉ Permanency, Safety, and Well being of children Answer: What are
the fundamental outcomes of all child welfare practice?
,◉ the means by which individuals and families are helped to change
their behaviors and circumstances. Answer: What is practice?
◉ the ability to successfully balance concerns for child safety with
concerns for the emotional security and the importance of family to
children for whom safety is sought. Answer: What is the art of social
work practice?
◉ the combo of knowledge, skills, and behaviors reflect the attitudes
and values that support consistent appropriate choices of action-
leading to the child's safety, health, and well being. Answer: What
are the tasks and competencies of social work practice?
◉ Family Centered Trauma Informed and Strength Based approach,
FTS. Answer: What is the Illinois Core Practice Model anchored in?
◉ 1. Serve as an agent of change
2. Forming a helping relationship
3. Initial and Ongoing Assessment
4. Provide information about impact of trauma
5. Advocacy
6. Behavioral Support
7. Linkage
8. Coordinate
,9. Cultural Competence Answer: What are the 9 Core Child Welfare
Principles?
◉ Focuses on helping children remain connected to their parents,
extended family, and others who are significant relatives families
strengths and the importance of reflecting with family members.
Respect the rights, values, and culture of families. Answer: What is
Family Centered Practice?
◉ seeks to view kids and families with a trauma lens and
understand the impact of trauma on a child's development and
behavior. Answer: What is trauma informed practice?
◉ child and family team meetings CFTM Answer: what should be the
center of our casework?
◉ obtaining more info about the family's history and poetential
member for the child and family team. As we receive more info
about the family we will be adding to the CFS458B. Answer: what is
engagement?
◉ By Jan 1, 2000 the IDCFS and private child welfare agencies
developed and implemented a CWEL. Those providing direct child
welfare services in Illinois. Answer: Who needs a child welfare
license?
, ◉ 1. Provide us with additional opportunities to evaluate progress
towards permanency.
2. During visits, parents have the opportunity to apply newly
acquired skills and receive feedback.
3. visits also provide professional involved with the family
opportunites to identify strengths and give feedback about attempts
to utilize new parenting approaches
4. ongoing family interactions provide opportunities to help
maintain specific cultural traditions or practices that are important
to the child and family and may be support for them. Answer: What
are some benefits of child visitation?
◉ serious or critical bodily injury, wound, or shock Answer: What
does medical trauma refer to
◉ child's experience of an event that is emotionally painful,
distressful, or shocking, which often results in lasting mental and
physical effects. Answer: pyschiatrically trauma
◉ 4 out of 10 Answer: what is the ratio of children who witness
violence?
◉ 1 in 4 Answer: what ratio of kids who will experience a traumatic
event by their 16th birthday?
