CWCM STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ALL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Values of Family Preservation Services (FAMILY 1St) - ✔✔Family drives the system
All children need families
Model family strengths
Immediate response
Leave the power with the family
You must be culturally competent
FIRST concern is safety.
✔✔Purpose of Family Preservation Services - ✔✔Be short term intensive services.
Be voluntary and provided within 24 hours
Protect children in a home where child abuse allegations have been made.
,Provide minimal distraction to the family.
Prevent out of home placement of a child.
Prevent subsequent abuse or neglect
Reduce the stay for a child in out of home placement.
✔✔Types of Family Preservation Services - ✔✔Budgeting
Nutrition
Parenting skills
Therapy
✔✔The School Readiness Program : Program Eligibility - ✔✔Priority given to children 3
to school entry who are served by DCF or a CBC lead agency for whom child care is
needed to minimize risk of further maltreatment.
Child can be in out of home care or in home care.
✔✔The School Readiness Program : Length - ✔✔Referrals must be made every 60
days
Cannot exceed 6 months.
✔✔What does a Strengths- Focused Service Delivery Model help families accomplish?
- ✔✔Build self-esteem
Identify concrete skills that can be developed.
Reinforce the positive things that they already do or know how to do.
Use what they know as a basis for future growth.
✔✔Human Trafficking: Definition - ✔✔The recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision or obtaining of a child for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or
coercion.
Under federal law sex trafficking does not require there to be force, fraud or coercion if
the victim is under 18.
✔✔Possible Indicators of human trafficking - ✔✔Shows evidence of physical, mental or
sexual abuse
,Cannot or will not speak on own behalf and/or is non-English speaking
Is not allowed to speak to you alone
Is being controlled
Does not have access to identity or travel documents
Works unusually long hours and is unpaid or paid very little.
Will not cooperate
Is not in school or has significant gaps in schooling
Lives at their workplace or with their employer.
Has a heightened sense of fear or distrust
Has engaged in prostitution or commercial sex acts .
✔✔Questions to Consider for Human Trafficking Victims - ✔✔Living Environment
State of Mind: If threats have been made towards the child or their family, if harsh
punishments are used
School and Work
✔✔Human Trafficking: Means to enforce Victimization - ✔✔Physical confinement
Withholding of food
Verbal mistreatment
Exposure to violent or intimidating acts
Threats of deportation
Drug/alcohol dependency
Isolation
False promises to victims
✔✔Do victims of human trafficking identify themselves as such? - ✔✔Typically no, they
will be presented to the agency as a normal abuse or neglect case.
, ✔✔Prime Destination States of Human Trafficking - ✔✔Florida, Texas, New York and
California
✔✔# of people Trafficked Each Year in the US - ✔✔14,500-17,500
✔✔Percentage of HT victims that are children? - ✔✔50%
✔✔Which FL Statue governs dependency cases? - ✔✔Chapter 39
✔✔Does corporal punishment constitute abuse? - ✔✔No; unless the acts begin to
cause harm to the child (i.e. leaving welts or bruises on the child)
✔✔If a parent is incarcerated, have they abandoned their child? - ✔✔No; But
continuous incarceration can.
✔✔When must an arraignment hearing be held? - ✔✔No later than 28 days after the
shelter hearing or within 7 days of the dependency hearing.
✔✔What are examples of critical junctures? - ✔✔Case transfer, new child in the family,
death of a parent or sibling, parent marriage, domestic violence.
✔✔The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 - ✔✔Sets national minimum
standards for key activities within state's child welfare systems.
Requires that case plans develop clear permanency goals and are reviewed every 6
months to ever goals are revised and updated.
✔✔The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) - ✔✔Declares that the child's
health and safety must be the paramount concern.
Requires that states: preserve and reunify families, place the child in a timely manner,
finalize permanent placement within 12 months.
✔✔Mutli-Ethnic Placement Act (MEPA) - ✔✔Prohibits the delay or denial of any
adoption or placement in foster care due to the race, color, or national origin of the child
or of the foster or adoptive parents.
✔✔Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) - ✔✔Establishes
procedures for placing children across state lines.
it requires the sending state to keep court jurisdiction during placement to ensure the
child will be able to return, if necessary and to be financially responsible for the child if it
is not available in the receiving state.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Values of Family Preservation Services (FAMILY 1St) - ✔✔Family drives the system
All children need families
Model family strengths
Immediate response
Leave the power with the family
You must be culturally competent
FIRST concern is safety.
✔✔Purpose of Family Preservation Services - ✔✔Be short term intensive services.
Be voluntary and provided within 24 hours
Protect children in a home where child abuse allegations have been made.
,Provide minimal distraction to the family.
Prevent out of home placement of a child.
Prevent subsequent abuse or neglect
Reduce the stay for a child in out of home placement.
✔✔Types of Family Preservation Services - ✔✔Budgeting
Nutrition
Parenting skills
Therapy
✔✔The School Readiness Program : Program Eligibility - ✔✔Priority given to children 3
to school entry who are served by DCF or a CBC lead agency for whom child care is
needed to minimize risk of further maltreatment.
Child can be in out of home care or in home care.
✔✔The School Readiness Program : Length - ✔✔Referrals must be made every 60
days
Cannot exceed 6 months.
✔✔What does a Strengths- Focused Service Delivery Model help families accomplish?
- ✔✔Build self-esteem
Identify concrete skills that can be developed.
Reinforce the positive things that they already do or know how to do.
Use what they know as a basis for future growth.
✔✔Human Trafficking: Definition - ✔✔The recruitment, harboring, transportation,
provision or obtaining of a child for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or
coercion.
Under federal law sex trafficking does not require there to be force, fraud or coercion if
the victim is under 18.
✔✔Possible Indicators of human trafficking - ✔✔Shows evidence of physical, mental or
sexual abuse
,Cannot or will not speak on own behalf and/or is non-English speaking
Is not allowed to speak to you alone
Is being controlled
Does not have access to identity or travel documents
Works unusually long hours and is unpaid or paid very little.
Will not cooperate
Is not in school or has significant gaps in schooling
Lives at their workplace or with their employer.
Has a heightened sense of fear or distrust
Has engaged in prostitution or commercial sex acts .
✔✔Questions to Consider for Human Trafficking Victims - ✔✔Living Environment
State of Mind: If threats have been made towards the child or their family, if harsh
punishments are used
School and Work
✔✔Human Trafficking: Means to enforce Victimization - ✔✔Physical confinement
Withholding of food
Verbal mistreatment
Exposure to violent or intimidating acts
Threats of deportation
Drug/alcohol dependency
Isolation
False promises to victims
✔✔Do victims of human trafficking identify themselves as such? - ✔✔Typically no, they
will be presented to the agency as a normal abuse or neglect case.
, ✔✔Prime Destination States of Human Trafficking - ✔✔Florida, Texas, New York and
California
✔✔# of people Trafficked Each Year in the US - ✔✔14,500-17,500
✔✔Percentage of HT victims that are children? - ✔✔50%
✔✔Which FL Statue governs dependency cases? - ✔✔Chapter 39
✔✔Does corporal punishment constitute abuse? - ✔✔No; unless the acts begin to
cause harm to the child (i.e. leaving welts or bruises on the child)
✔✔If a parent is incarcerated, have they abandoned their child? - ✔✔No; But
continuous incarceration can.
✔✔When must an arraignment hearing be held? - ✔✔No later than 28 days after the
shelter hearing or within 7 days of the dependency hearing.
✔✔What are examples of critical junctures? - ✔✔Case transfer, new child in the family,
death of a parent or sibling, parent marriage, domestic violence.
✔✔The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 - ✔✔Sets national minimum
standards for key activities within state's child welfare systems.
Requires that case plans develop clear permanency goals and are reviewed every 6
months to ever goals are revised and updated.
✔✔The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) - ✔✔Declares that the child's
health and safety must be the paramount concern.
Requires that states: preserve and reunify families, place the child in a timely manner,
finalize permanent placement within 12 months.
✔✔Mutli-Ethnic Placement Act (MEPA) - ✔✔Prohibits the delay or denial of any
adoption or placement in foster care due to the race, color, or national origin of the child
or of the foster or adoptive parents.
✔✔Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) - ✔✔Establishes
procedures for placing children across state lines.
it requires the sending state to keep court jurisdiction during placement to ensure the
child will be able to return, if necessary and to be financially responsible for the child if it
is not available in the receiving state.
