CERAP UPDATED SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
✔✔Child Vulnerability factors: - ✔✔•Younger children who lack good verbal skills, in
particular, non-verbal children.
• Children affected by developmental
disabilities/deficits.
• Children who have serious medical
problems.
• Children who exhibit psychological,
emotional, or behavioral problems.
✔✔Safety threats - ✔✔Are behaviors or conditions that may be associated with a child
or children being in danger of moderate to severe harm immediately or in the near
future.
✔✔Family strengths/Mitigating circumstances - ✔✔Must take place on the initiative of
family members and not at the suggestion or instigation of Department staff.
✔✔Action part of a safety plan: - ✔✔When members of the family initiate plan because
of the suggestion or instigation of Department staff.
✔✔When are Safety Threats Mitigated? - ✔✔-Caregivers, acting on their own initiative,
take
reasonable action(s) to correct dangerous
behaviors/conditions.
-There is an adult caregiver residing in the home who is willing and able to control the
identified
behavior/condition.
-The caregiver(s) responsible for the safety threat are removed from the home.
✔✔If no safety threats are identified: - ✔✔all involved children must be assessed as
safe.
, ✔✔If one or more safety threats have been identified and all identified safety threats are
adequately controlled by family strengths or actions: - ✔✔all involved children must be
assessed as safe. This decision requires supervisory consultation via phone at the time
of assessment.
✔✔If one or more safety threats have been identified and all identified safety threats are
not controlled (mitigated) by family strengths or actions: - ✔✔all children affected by the
unmitigated safety factor must be assessed as unsafe. this decision requires
supervisory consultation via phone at the time of assessment.
✔✔When a decision is made that a child is unsafe: - ✔✔A safety plan must be
developed and implements or protective custody must be taken to avoid immediate
danger to a child.
✔✔Stages of assessment: - ✔✔Information gathering → Information Analysis → draw
conclusion→ make decision
✔✔7 Deadly Sins - ✔✔Colic
Awakening at Night
Separation Anxiety
Normal Exploratory Behavior
Normal Negativism
Normal Poor Appetite
Toilet Training Resistance
✔✔If the child is unsafe we: - ✔✔1) A safety plan needs to be put in place
2) remove child from home
✔✔Moderate to Severe Harm: A serious threat of - ✔✔1. There is a danger to the
child's life or health
2. Chance of impairment to his or her physical or mental well being
3. Disfigurement
✔✔Steps to Determine Safety: - ✔✔1. Identify relevant safety threats
2. Describe the safety threat you checked
3. Record family strengths and mitigating circumstances
4. Make safety decisions
✔✔Caregiver - ✔✔
✔✔CERAP is a ____________________ assessment only - ✔✔Familial, is only done in
the house of the children or where children will go live, NOT in foster homes.
SET A+
✔✔Child Vulnerability factors: - ✔✔•Younger children who lack good verbal skills, in
particular, non-verbal children.
• Children affected by developmental
disabilities/deficits.
• Children who have serious medical
problems.
• Children who exhibit psychological,
emotional, or behavioral problems.
✔✔Safety threats - ✔✔Are behaviors or conditions that may be associated with a child
or children being in danger of moderate to severe harm immediately or in the near
future.
✔✔Family strengths/Mitigating circumstances - ✔✔Must take place on the initiative of
family members and not at the suggestion or instigation of Department staff.
✔✔Action part of a safety plan: - ✔✔When members of the family initiate plan because
of the suggestion or instigation of Department staff.
✔✔When are Safety Threats Mitigated? - ✔✔-Caregivers, acting on their own initiative,
take
reasonable action(s) to correct dangerous
behaviors/conditions.
-There is an adult caregiver residing in the home who is willing and able to control the
identified
behavior/condition.
-The caregiver(s) responsible for the safety threat are removed from the home.
✔✔If no safety threats are identified: - ✔✔all involved children must be assessed as
safe.
, ✔✔If one or more safety threats have been identified and all identified safety threats are
adequately controlled by family strengths or actions: - ✔✔all involved children must be
assessed as safe. This decision requires supervisory consultation via phone at the time
of assessment.
✔✔If one or more safety threats have been identified and all identified safety threats are
not controlled (mitigated) by family strengths or actions: - ✔✔all children affected by the
unmitigated safety factor must be assessed as unsafe. this decision requires
supervisory consultation via phone at the time of assessment.
✔✔When a decision is made that a child is unsafe: - ✔✔A safety plan must be
developed and implements or protective custody must be taken to avoid immediate
danger to a child.
✔✔Stages of assessment: - ✔✔Information gathering → Information Analysis → draw
conclusion→ make decision
✔✔7 Deadly Sins - ✔✔Colic
Awakening at Night
Separation Anxiety
Normal Exploratory Behavior
Normal Negativism
Normal Poor Appetite
Toilet Training Resistance
✔✔If the child is unsafe we: - ✔✔1) A safety plan needs to be put in place
2) remove child from home
✔✔Moderate to Severe Harm: A serious threat of - ✔✔1. There is a danger to the
child's life or health
2. Chance of impairment to his or her physical or mental well being
3. Disfigurement
✔✔Steps to Determine Safety: - ✔✔1. Identify relevant safety threats
2. Describe the safety threat you checked
3. Record family strengths and mitigating circumstances
4. Make safety decisions
✔✔Caregiver - ✔✔
✔✔CERAP is a ____________________ assessment only - ✔✔Familial, is only done in
the house of the children or where children will go live, NOT in foster homes.
