CWCM CORE MAIN EXAMS SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Preservation of Records and Access by the Child - ✔✔Reports and records of all
cases under Chpt 39 pertaining to a child and family must be preserved until the child
who is the subject of the record is 30.
✔✔Information that may be released to the Public: Missing Children - ✔✔Child's Name
and DOB
Physical description of the child
Photo of the child
Any information that is deemed necessary to promote the safety of the child or the
location of the child.
✔✔General Procedures for Sharing Records with a Child - ✔✔The child has the clear
right to inspect their official record.
Care, concern and sensitivity must guide the sharing of the record.
Copies of the record should never be simply handed over to the child.
✔✔Intakes the Hotline Receives - ✔✔Child Maltreatment Intakes
Elderly/Disabled persons Maltreatment
,Special conditions referrals
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
Foster Care referral
Parent Needs Assistance
Caregiver Unavailable
Prevention referrals
✔✔Who must report to the Hotline? - ✔✔Any person who knows, or has reasonable
cause to suspect , a child is being maltreated by a parent/legal guardian or other person
responsible for the child's wellbeing.
Certain fields are mandated reporters (doctors, school personnel, social workers) and
they must leave their name with the Hotline.
✔✔Criteria for accepting a report of child maltreatment - ✔✔There is reasonable cause
to suspect that a child who could be located in Florida has been harmed or is believed
to be threatened with harm by a person responsible for the care of the child.
✔✔Occupations that are required to provide their name when reporting maltreatment -
✔✔Medical (doctors, nurses, medical examiners)
Mental Health Professionals
ALL school staff
Social workers
Law Enforcement Officers
Judges
✔✔During an open investigation or service provision, when is a call to the Hotline
required? - ✔✔During service provision, when you suspect or know that a new incident
of maltreatment has occurred.
During an investigation, when you know or suspect that a child died because of abuse
or neglect.
When information of maltreatment is discovered while assessing a special conditions
referral.
✔✔When are investigators NOT required to call the Hotline? - ✔✔During an open
investigation, you may add new maltreatments, new victims or other children, or new
perps that are related to the current investigation.
During service provision, when you have learned that a parent has not complied with
one or more case plan tasks.
✔✔Requirements for Contact: Child and Siblings - ✔✔You must recommend to the
court 1x/week. If siblings cannot be placed together.
,✔✔Out of Home Care: Goal - ✔✔Reunification or another permanent living condition
(ex. Adoptions)
✔✔In Home Care: Goal - ✔✔Maintain and Strengthen
✔✔Intake Case Name - ✔✔Youngest child
✔✔Case Name - ✔✔Mother's Name
✔✔Maltreatment: Definition - ✔✔A specific type of injury or harm, as incorporated by
the Child Maltreatment Index, used as an inclusive description for all forms of
maltreatment. The reporter's statement to the Hotline of a suspect specific harm/
threatened harm is referenced in the report as maltreatment.
✔✔Hotline Intakes: Caregiver Unavailable - ✔✔Situations in which the parent or
caregiver has been incarcerated, hospitalized or died and immediate pains must be
made for the child's care.
✔✔Hotline Intakes: Foster Care Referral - ✔✔Concerns about the care being provided
in a licensed foster home, group home or emergency shelter that are not allegations of
maltreatment.
✔✔Hotline Intakes: Child on Child Sexual Abuse - ✔✔Calls alleging behavior between
children, when the aggressor child is 12 or younger occurring without consent, without
equality or as a result of coercion.
✔✔Hotline Intakes: Parent Needs Assistance/ Prevention Referrals - ✔✔Situations that
do not meet the criteria for maltreatment report, but the family may need services. The
intent is to prevent maltreatment by helping families.
✔✔Why conduct staffings? - ✔✔Staffings are a way for you to share the decision
making process with people who bring different expertise, knowledge and prospectives
to the case assessment.
✔✔5 Major Staffings - ✔✔Early Intervention Services (ESI)
Child Protection Team (CPT)
Case Plan
Reunification
Permanency
✔✔Staffings: Early Intervention Services (ESI) - ✔✔Attended by the Investigator, Out of
Home Care, CM and/or their supervisor, foster care, the family
, Held ASAP after the need for services has been determined and before the
investigation is completed.
Coordinate efforts to meet the family's needs: Decide the most appropriate services and
resources.
✔✔Staffings: Child Protection Team (CPT) - ✔✔Attended by agency representative,
medical personnel, law enforcement, school personnel, GAL, service providers
Held during the initial investigation; High risk cases; Investigations containing
mandatory referral criteria and 3 priors regardless of the findings.
Report the results of assessments and discuss various perspectives on the case.
✔✔Staffings: Case Plan - ✔✔Attended by the CM, their supervisor, the parents or
caregivers, the child (if age apropriate), GAL, CWLS attorney
Held ASAP after the initial assessment and within 60 days of the child's removal.
Review the case plan to decide if it addresses the specific problems presented in the
petition and visiting and ensure it was developed with the parents. Also discuss need for
concurrent plans.
✔✔Staffings: Reunification - ✔✔Attended by the CM, the next 2 levels of supervision,
GAL, foster parents/caregivers
Held before unsupervised visits, overnight visits and reunification.
Review all records when a child is less than 6 (or has a disability) and is being
considered to return to a situation where the person initially responsible for the
abuse/neglect will again be responsible for the child.
✔✔Staffings: Permanency - ✔✔Attended by CM and their supervisor, adoption and
related services, family service providers, CWLS attorney, GAL, foster family
Held to prepare for the permanency hearing and/or as the department agency deems
necessary where there are concurrent goals.
Review the facts of the case. Make sure reunification has been considered. Make sure
relatives have been considered for placement. Decide goal and appropriate service
provision. Recommend change in permanency. Initiate TPR and begin adoption
planning.
✔✔Parent's Predisposition to Abuse Their Children - ✔✔Parent has low self-esteem
The parent cannot trust or depend upon others to meet their needs to care.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Preservation of Records and Access by the Child - ✔✔Reports and records of all
cases under Chpt 39 pertaining to a child and family must be preserved until the child
who is the subject of the record is 30.
✔✔Information that may be released to the Public: Missing Children - ✔✔Child's Name
and DOB
Physical description of the child
Photo of the child
Any information that is deemed necessary to promote the safety of the child or the
location of the child.
✔✔General Procedures for Sharing Records with a Child - ✔✔The child has the clear
right to inspect their official record.
Care, concern and sensitivity must guide the sharing of the record.
Copies of the record should never be simply handed over to the child.
✔✔Intakes the Hotline Receives - ✔✔Child Maltreatment Intakes
Elderly/Disabled persons Maltreatment
,Special conditions referrals
Child on Child Sexual Abuse
Foster Care referral
Parent Needs Assistance
Caregiver Unavailable
Prevention referrals
✔✔Who must report to the Hotline? - ✔✔Any person who knows, or has reasonable
cause to suspect , a child is being maltreated by a parent/legal guardian or other person
responsible for the child's wellbeing.
Certain fields are mandated reporters (doctors, school personnel, social workers) and
they must leave their name with the Hotline.
✔✔Criteria for accepting a report of child maltreatment - ✔✔There is reasonable cause
to suspect that a child who could be located in Florida has been harmed or is believed
to be threatened with harm by a person responsible for the care of the child.
✔✔Occupations that are required to provide their name when reporting maltreatment -
✔✔Medical (doctors, nurses, medical examiners)
Mental Health Professionals
ALL school staff
Social workers
Law Enforcement Officers
Judges
✔✔During an open investigation or service provision, when is a call to the Hotline
required? - ✔✔During service provision, when you suspect or know that a new incident
of maltreatment has occurred.
During an investigation, when you know or suspect that a child died because of abuse
or neglect.
When information of maltreatment is discovered while assessing a special conditions
referral.
✔✔When are investigators NOT required to call the Hotline? - ✔✔During an open
investigation, you may add new maltreatments, new victims or other children, or new
perps that are related to the current investigation.
During service provision, when you have learned that a parent has not complied with
one or more case plan tasks.
✔✔Requirements for Contact: Child and Siblings - ✔✔You must recommend to the
court 1x/week. If siblings cannot be placed together.
,✔✔Out of Home Care: Goal - ✔✔Reunification or another permanent living condition
(ex. Adoptions)
✔✔In Home Care: Goal - ✔✔Maintain and Strengthen
✔✔Intake Case Name - ✔✔Youngest child
✔✔Case Name - ✔✔Mother's Name
✔✔Maltreatment: Definition - ✔✔A specific type of injury or harm, as incorporated by
the Child Maltreatment Index, used as an inclusive description for all forms of
maltreatment. The reporter's statement to the Hotline of a suspect specific harm/
threatened harm is referenced in the report as maltreatment.
✔✔Hotline Intakes: Caregiver Unavailable - ✔✔Situations in which the parent or
caregiver has been incarcerated, hospitalized or died and immediate pains must be
made for the child's care.
✔✔Hotline Intakes: Foster Care Referral - ✔✔Concerns about the care being provided
in a licensed foster home, group home or emergency shelter that are not allegations of
maltreatment.
✔✔Hotline Intakes: Child on Child Sexual Abuse - ✔✔Calls alleging behavior between
children, when the aggressor child is 12 or younger occurring without consent, without
equality or as a result of coercion.
✔✔Hotline Intakes: Parent Needs Assistance/ Prevention Referrals - ✔✔Situations that
do not meet the criteria for maltreatment report, but the family may need services. The
intent is to prevent maltreatment by helping families.
✔✔Why conduct staffings? - ✔✔Staffings are a way for you to share the decision
making process with people who bring different expertise, knowledge and prospectives
to the case assessment.
✔✔5 Major Staffings - ✔✔Early Intervention Services (ESI)
Child Protection Team (CPT)
Case Plan
Reunification
Permanency
✔✔Staffings: Early Intervention Services (ESI) - ✔✔Attended by the Investigator, Out of
Home Care, CM and/or their supervisor, foster care, the family
, Held ASAP after the need for services has been determined and before the
investigation is completed.
Coordinate efforts to meet the family's needs: Decide the most appropriate services and
resources.
✔✔Staffings: Child Protection Team (CPT) - ✔✔Attended by agency representative,
medical personnel, law enforcement, school personnel, GAL, service providers
Held during the initial investigation; High risk cases; Investigations containing
mandatory referral criteria and 3 priors regardless of the findings.
Report the results of assessments and discuss various perspectives on the case.
✔✔Staffings: Case Plan - ✔✔Attended by the CM, their supervisor, the parents or
caregivers, the child (if age apropriate), GAL, CWLS attorney
Held ASAP after the initial assessment and within 60 days of the child's removal.
Review the case plan to decide if it addresses the specific problems presented in the
petition and visiting and ensure it was developed with the parents. Also discuss need for
concurrent plans.
✔✔Staffings: Reunification - ✔✔Attended by the CM, the next 2 levels of supervision,
GAL, foster parents/caregivers
Held before unsupervised visits, overnight visits and reunification.
Review all records when a child is less than 6 (or has a disability) and is being
considered to return to a situation where the person initially responsible for the
abuse/neglect will again be responsible for the child.
✔✔Staffings: Permanency - ✔✔Attended by CM and their supervisor, adoption and
related services, family service providers, CWLS attorney, GAL, foster family
Held to prepare for the permanency hearing and/or as the department agency deems
necessary where there are concurrent goals.
Review the facts of the case. Make sure reunification has been considered. Make sure
relatives have been considered for placement. Decide goal and appropriate service
provision. Recommend change in permanency. Initiate TPR and begin adoption
planning.
✔✔Parent's Predisposition to Abuse Their Children - ✔✔Parent has low self-esteem
The parent cannot trust or depend upon others to meet their needs to care.
