DCFS Placement EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS <RECENT VERSION>

DCFS Placement EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS &lt;RECENT VERSION&gt; 1. Working with Caregivers - ANSWER 1. Foster and relative caregivers are part of Child & Family Team Caseworkers must provide all available information about children's strengths and needs in relation to health, education, psychological-emotional and physical development to ensure caregiver's ability to appropriately care for children Fully disclose to caregiver - children's current legal status and permanency goals and update on progress or lack thereof in achieving permanency 2. Permanency Definition - ANSWER A continuous living arrangement designed to meet a child's developmental needs, increase his/her sense of emotional well being and establish legal bonds to a place and family. 3. Working with Caregivers (cont.) - ANSWER 1. Discuss children's needs, behaviors, adjustment to placement, and separation/loss issues with caregivers 2. Make timely and appropriate referrals for services to meet children's needs and support the children's placements. 3. Involve caregivers in the plan for the child 4. Involve caregivers in reunification activities like parent/child visits, sibling visits, etc 4. Relational Permanency - ANSWER considers supportive relationships and connections to people that the youth can look to for assistance, guidance, encouragement, and membership 5. Gold Standard for Permanency - ANSWER reunification, adoption, or guardianship; for older youth establish a supportive network where the youth feels like they belong 6. In order to help youth establish and maintain lifelong supports the worker must: - ANSWER 1. complete family finding activities 2. review case notes from family finding interviews with youth 3. help youth stay engaged or reengage w siblings, regardless of where they live 4. offer to help them engage/reengage with identified relatives 7. When youth are in placement - ANSWER 1. required to look at family members as first choice 2. at minimum, search efforts should be renewed each time child requires placement change 3. document search efforts in case record 8. Permanency Risks - ANSWER 1. Cases where goal is reunification but significant obstacles that family must first overcome 2. Family is unable to make the necessary changes for children to return home Ex. family doesnt take accountability, misses visits etc 9. Concurrent Planning - ANSWER Required for families 1. Who are assessed to be at high risk of further abuse 2. Have poor prognosis for change 3. Have not made substantial progress in accomplishing service goals for reunification 4. Alternate permanency placements must be identified 10. Expedited Termination - ANSWER Cases moves from Temporary Custody to termination of parental rights and adoption 11. Temporary Custody Hearing - ANSWER 48 hours 12. Introductory Meeting - ANSWER 7 days after protective custody 13. Develop and File Initial Visitation Plan - ANSWER 10 days after protective custody 14. First CFTM - ANSWER 14 days after protective custody 15. In Person Visit with Child and Caregiver in the Home - ANSWER 72 hours after care assignment 16. Handoff Staffing - ANSWER 5 days after case assignment 17. Copy of Youth Bill of Rights - ANSWER 30 days after initial placement 18. Monthly Face to Face Meetings - ANSWER Every 30 Days 19. IA, CANS, Second CFTM, Service Plan, and Concurrent Planning - ANSWER 40 days after protective custody 20. File Initial Service Plan w/ Juvenile Court - ANSWER 45 days after protective custody 21. CANS Assessment on Parents - ANSWER 90 days after protective custody and every 90 days thereafter until case closure 22. CFTM - ANSWER 3 months (quarterly) 23. ACR - ANSWER 6 months 24. Permanency Hearing - ANSWER 12 months 25. Review Youth Bill of Rights - ANSWER Annually 26. Safety and Risk, CERAP Milestones - ANSWER Ongoing