CWEL Unit 1: Policy and History questions and answers latest top score.

CWEL Unit 1: Policy and History questions and answers latest top score. *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. *Provide appropriate, permanent families as quickly as possible for those children who cannot safely return home. *Support early intervention and child abuse prevention activities. *Work in partnerships with communities to fulfill this mission. - correct answers.What is the Mission of DCFS? dual mandate - correct answers.Definition: Protecting children and supporting families. We do not view children and families as separate units and support the children's membership in their families of origin. *Authority of the legislature to create and regulate the delivery of public social services for the health and welfare of the public and *rights of citizens to due process, equal protection, and privacy that must be maintained and respected by any agency of the government. - correct answers.The federal and state Constitutions prescribe the organization, powers, and framework of government to establish what? Federal Law - correct answers.Enacted by congress. Bills that are passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate and signed by the President. Statutes (state law) - correct legislative mandates that prescribe the manner in which government will use its powers. Case Law - correct on court decisions and interpretations; doesn't include statutory provisions. In any specific case, the court will interpret statutes, define terminology, and review compliance with statutorily prescribed procedures. Social Security Act Title IV-B (Federal) - correct answers.Federal law that establishes requirements to receive federal funding for family support services, time-limited family reunification services (up to 15 months), adoption promotion and support services. It also creates funds for general child welfare services. Social Security Act Title IV-E (Federal) - correct answers.Social Security act was amended to include the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. Children Eligible for this receive foster care reimbursement to achieve permanent living arrangements. This Title also requires: * Reasonable efforts must be made to prevent a child from entering foster care, and to reunify a child with the child's family. *Written case pans with permanency goals, reasons a child is in foster care, services offered to resolve the cause for foster care. *Periodic review of the progress toward permanency by independent third party-not same administrative unit. Indian Child Welfare Act (Federal) - correct d in 1978 as a result of congressional recognition of the importance of preserving the Native American heritage, culture, and communities. Ensures the rights of cultural identification to Native Americans residing on or off tribal reservations and granted jurisdiction to tribes over matters involving all Native American children. IEPA (Inter-Ethnic Placement Act) (Federal) - correct answers.Act that prohibits any consideration of children's race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which permanent placement will be in their best interest. Act intends to: *Decrease time children wait to be adopted. *Prevent discrimination on basis of race, color, or national origin when selecting placements. *Recruit a diverse pool of foster and adoptive families of all races and ethnic groups. *Provide stiff penalties, including financial penalties, for violations of this act. 1) Delays in placing children who need adoptive or foster homes are not to be tolerated, nor are denials based on any prohibited or otherwise inappropriate consideration. Placement cannot be delayed if foster parent of similar background is not available. 2) Discrimination is not to be tolerated, whether it is directed toward adults who wish to serve as foster parents, toward children who need safe and appropriate homes, or toward communities or populations, which may have been under-utilized as a resource for placing. 3) Active, diligent and lawful recruitment of potential foster and adoptive parents of all backgrounds is both a legal requirement and an important tool for meeting the demands of good practice. 4) The operative standard in foster care and adoptive placements has been and continues to be "the best interests of the child" - correct answers.What are the 4 critical elements of IEPA? (Inter-Ethnic Placement Act) Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) 1997 (Federal) - correct answers.Amends Title IV-E,Social Security Act: -Requires reasonable efforts to move children to permanency, while providing that "a child's health and safety shall be the paramount concern" -Requires reasonable efforts to secure and adoptive placement when parental rights are terminated. -Requires judicial permanency hearings for children no later than 12 months after the date children entered foster care, and; no less than every 12 months as long as the children are in foster care. -Requires that states must file a petition to terminate parental rights when children have been in foster care for 15 of the previous 22 months. -Establishes exceptions to "reasonable efforts"which are: *Child is living with a relative *Termination of parental rights not in the child's best interest *The state failed to provide services consistent with case plan time frame Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Federal) - correct answers.Act extends assistance for foster care maintenance, adoption assistance, and kinship guardianship programs to eligible youth age 18 and up to age 21. It provides instructions regarding changes resulting from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its effect on youth over age 18. Children and Family Services Act (IL State Law) - correct fies the general duties and responsibilities of DCFS. ANCRA- Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act (IL State Law) - correct of the most important pieces of legislation that guides day to day work of cwel professionals in IL. It requires the Department to receive reports of abused and neglected children, to investigate these reports, and to provide services necessary to prevent further harm to children. It provides definitions of child abuse and neglect, lists the persons who are required to report allegations, and describes how the Department is to accept and investigate reports and provide follow-up services. -DCFS field personnel -Social Workers -Social Service Administrators -Teachers -Any childcare workers -Priests -Doctors - correct answers.Who is required to be a mandated reporter? Child Abuse P 9 - correct answers. Child Neglect P9 - correct answers. -Parents or responsible caregivers leave the children in the care of an adult relative for any period.