CWEL & CANS exam questions with verified
answers
Who needs a child welfare license? Ans✓✓-Anyone who works in child welfare in
Illinois
3 outcomes Ans✓✓-safety, permanency, well-being
Safety Ans✓✓-Status when an assessment of available information supports the
belief that a child is not in immediate danger of moderate to severe harm
Permanency Ans✓✓-A continuous living arrangement designed to meet a child's
needs, increases his/her sense of emotional well-being, and establish legal bonds
to a place and family
Orphan Train Ans✓✓-Placed 150,000 poor/orphan children from eastern cities
with Midwest farm families
Some of these children became members of these families, but many were valued
only as farm laborers
DCFS Mission Statement Ans✓✓--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 services
,-Work in partnership with communities to fulfill this mission
Dual Mandate Ans✓✓-Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
Federal Laws:
Social Security Act Ans✓✓-system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for
victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent
mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
Social Security Title IV-B Ans✓✓-Requires federal funding for family support
services
Social Security Title IV-E Ans✓✓-Amends the SSA to include adoption assistance
and child welfare funding and requires responsible efforts to keep children from
entering care
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Ans✓✓-Addresses the best interests of Native
American Children to preserve their generational and tribal ties
Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA) Ans✓✓-Prohibits any consideration of a child's
race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which permanent placement will be in
their best interest
Adoption and safe families act (ASFA) Ans✓✓-Amends title IV-E to require efforts
to move a child to permanency, requiring judicial permanency hearing for
children no later than 12 months after the child enters child care
, Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008 Ans✓✓-
extends assistance of youth to 21
requires that a transition plan be developed with youth and he/she ages out of
foster care
State Laws:
Children and Family services act Ans✓✓-specifies the general duties and
responsibilities of DCFS
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA) Ans✓✓-Guides the day by
day work of child professionals in Illinois
Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters, how to
accept and investigate reports and provide follow up services
Juvenile Court Act Ans✓✓-Establishes authority of Juvenile court to intervene in
the lives of children and families
Adoption Act Ans✓✓-Specifies the grounds for parental unfitness and procedures
governing adoption of children
Child care act Ans✓✓-Establishes the licensing regulations governing child
welfare agencies, foster family homes, group homes, child care institutions, day
care agencies, and individual day care providers
Interstate compact placement Ans✓✓-Governs the provision of care for children
in foster care from one state to another
answers
Who needs a child welfare license? Ans✓✓-Anyone who works in child welfare in
Illinois
3 outcomes Ans✓✓-safety, permanency, well-being
Safety Ans✓✓-Status when an assessment of available information supports the
belief that a child is not in immediate danger of moderate to severe harm
Permanency Ans✓✓-A continuous living arrangement designed to meet a child's
needs, increases his/her sense of emotional well-being, and establish legal bonds
to a place and family
Orphan Train Ans✓✓-Placed 150,000 poor/orphan children from eastern cities
with Midwest farm families
Some of these children became members of these families, but many were valued
only as farm laborers
DCFS Mission Statement Ans✓✓--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 services
,-Work in partnership with communities to fulfill this mission
Dual Mandate Ans✓✓-Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
Federal Laws:
Social Security Act Ans✓✓-system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for
victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent
mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
Social Security Title IV-B Ans✓✓-Requires federal funding for family support
services
Social Security Title IV-E Ans✓✓-Amends the SSA to include adoption assistance
and child welfare funding and requires responsible efforts to keep children from
entering care
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Ans✓✓-Addresses the best interests of Native
American Children to preserve their generational and tribal ties
Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA) Ans✓✓-Prohibits any consideration of a child's
race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which permanent placement will be in
their best interest
Adoption and safe families act (ASFA) Ans✓✓-Amends title IV-E to require efforts
to move a child to permanency, requiring judicial permanency hearing for
children no later than 12 months after the child enters child care
, Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008 Ans✓✓-
extends assistance of youth to 21
requires that a transition plan be developed with youth and he/she ages out of
foster care
State Laws:
Children and Family services act Ans✓✓-specifies the general duties and
responsibilities of DCFS
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA) Ans✓✓-Guides the day by
day work of child professionals in Illinois
Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters, how to
accept and investigate reports and provide follow up services
Juvenile Court Act Ans✓✓-Establishes authority of Juvenile court to intervene in
the lives of children and families
Adoption Act Ans✓✓-Specifies the grounds for parental unfitness and procedures
governing adoption of children
Child care act Ans✓✓-Establishes the licensing regulations governing child
welfare agencies, foster family homes, group homes, child care institutions, day
care agencies, and individual day care providers
Interstate compact placement Ans✓✓-Governs the provision of care for children
in foster care from one state to another
