CWEL and CANS.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/New%20folder%20(4)/CWEL%20and
CWEL and CANS Questions & Answers
1. Who needs a CW license?
Answer The illinois children and family services act requiresa license for ALL direct child
welfare services ( staff supervisors, investigator, casemanagers)
2. What are 3 outcomes?
Answer Permanency, Safety, and well being of children
3. What is the orphan train movement?
Answer from 1850's- 1900's, a train took orphansfrom very poor families on east coast to
midwest farm families.
4. What is the DCFS mission?
Answer To protect children reported to have been abusedor neglected, icrease families' capacity
to care for them, provide for well being of children in care, to support early intervention and
child abuse prevention activities,work in partnershop with communities to fufill mission
1 of 31 10/24/2024, 7:58
,CWEL and CANS.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/New%20folder%20(4)/CWEL%20and
5. What is Duel Mandate?
Answer protecting children AND supporting families- we don'tview children as isolated units
we view the family as a unit and suppor that child'smembership in the family.
6. Social Security ActTitle IV-E
Answer Requirement for states to receive funding for childwelfare services
7. Indian Child Welfare Act
Answer protects best interest of native children, grants juris-diction, preferrd placement with
tribes
8. Inter- Ethnic Placement Act
Answer law prohibits consideration of a child's race inplacement options
9. Adaptation and Safe Families Act
Answer Requires reasonable efforts to move kids topermanency within 12 months- goal is to
not let children lanquish in care.
2 of 31 10/24/2024, 7:58
,CWEL and CANS.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/New%20folder%20(4)/CWEL%20and
10. Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adaptions Act
Answer Extendsassistance for foster care subsidies. For kids, if it does amke sense to terminate
parental rights, and long term guardianship is chosen, it provides more financial support to
encourage long term permanency option.
11. Children and Families Services Act
Answer Established DCFS, spells out duties,responsibilities, and obligations
12. ANCRA
Answer definition of abuse and neglect authorizes DCFS to investigate reports,describes who are
mandated reporters and DCFS is supposed to accept reports. The penalty for failure to report is
a Class A misdemeanor
13. Juvenile Court Act
Answer Grants authority of the court to intervene into the lives ofyouth and families.
14. Child Care Act
3 of 31 10/24/2024, 7:58
,CWEL and CANS.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/New%20folder%20(4)/CWEL%20and
Answer Licensing regulations for child welfare agencies, foster homes,daycare, residential
treatment centers...etc.
15. Interstate Compact on Placement of Children
Answer Establishes who is going to beresponsible for that particular case.
16. Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance
Answer means you can'tplace a child in any state.You must get permission from that state's
Child protectionservice.
4 of 31 10/24/2024, 7:58
CWEL and CANS Questions & Answers
1. Who needs a CW license?
Answer The illinois children and family services act requiresa license for ALL direct child
welfare services ( staff supervisors, investigator, casemanagers)
2. What are 3 outcomes?
Answer Permanency, Safety, and well being of children
3. What is the orphan train movement?
Answer from 1850's- 1900's, a train took orphansfrom very poor families on east coast to
midwest farm families.
4. What is the DCFS mission?
Answer To protect children reported to have been abusedor neglected, icrease families' capacity
to care for them, provide for well being of children in care, to support early intervention and
child abuse prevention activities,work in partnershop with communities to fufill mission
1 of 31 10/24/2024, 7:58
,CWEL and CANS.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/New%20folder%20(4)/CWEL%20and
5. What is Duel Mandate?
Answer protecting children AND supporting families- we don'tview children as isolated units
we view the family as a unit and suppor that child'smembership in the family.
6. Social Security ActTitle IV-E
Answer Requirement for states to receive funding for childwelfare services
7. Indian Child Welfare Act
Answer protects best interest of native children, grants juris-diction, preferrd placement with
tribes
8. Inter- Ethnic Placement Act
Answer law prohibits consideration of a child's race inplacement options
9. Adaptation and Safe Families Act
Answer Requires reasonable efforts to move kids topermanency within 12 months- goal is to
not let children lanquish in care.
2 of 31 10/24/2024, 7:58
,CWEL and CANS.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/New%20folder%20(4)/CWEL%20and
10. Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adaptions Act
Answer Extendsassistance for foster care subsidies. For kids, if it does amke sense to terminate
parental rights, and long term guardianship is chosen, it provides more financial support to
encourage long term permanency option.
11. Children and Families Services Act
Answer Established DCFS, spells out duties,responsibilities, and obligations
12. ANCRA
Answer definition of abuse and neglect authorizes DCFS to investigate reports,describes who are
mandated reporters and DCFS is supposed to accept reports. The penalty for failure to report is
a Class A misdemeanor
13. Juvenile Court Act
Answer Grants authority of the court to intervene into the lives ofyouth and families.
14. Child Care Act
3 of 31 10/24/2024, 7:58
,CWEL and CANS.pdf file:///C:/Users/HP/Desktop/New%20folder%20(4)/CWEL%20and
Answer Licensing regulations for child welfare agencies, foster homes,daycare, residential
treatment centers...etc.
15. Interstate Compact on Placement of Children
Answer Establishes who is going to beresponsible for that particular case.
16. Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance
Answer means you can'tplace a child in any state.You must get permission from that state's
Child protectionservice.
4 of 31 10/24/2024, 7:58
