CWCM CHILD WELFARE CASE UPDATED FINAL
EXAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔How is it assessed if the case manager is using best case management practices -
✔✔Through quality service reviews
✔✔Which of the following is not a document to be filled with the court? - ✔✔The Risk
Assessment
✔✔The consequence for not enhancing caregiver protective capacities and not
reducing danger threats to the child must be: - ✔✔A. Understood by all parties
✔✔The primary purpose of the case plan is to: - ✔✔Provide treatment to enhance
caregiver protective capacities
✔✔Any petition you present to the court contains a section dealing with "reasonable
efforts" this deals with efforts made by you to : - ✔✔Prevent child's removal or promote
continuation in the home
✔✔In a case dealing with a possible placement of a child in another state, the sending
state must: - ✔✔Retain court jurisdiction
,✔✔The standard of proof at the shelter hearing is: - ✔✔probable cause
✔✔The standard of proof at the adjudicatory hearing is: - ✔✔preponderance of the
evidence
✔✔Independent living would be considered for children: - ✔✔Over 12 in foster care
status
✔✔If the father is the perpetrator of abuse, the child would be allowed to remain in the
home if: - ✔✔The father has left the home
✔✔Before a child can begin unsupervised or overnight visits with a parent the counselor
must? - ✔✔Complete an updated home study
✔✔What happens when a case plan is not successfully completed? - ✔✔Outcomes are
reviewed for adequacy and appropriateness
✔✔Post placement supervision occurs for a minimum of how long after reunification? -
✔✔6 months
✔✔The judicial review is used to: - ✔✔Show court the degree of progress made
towards the permanency goal and the outcomes of the case plan.
✔✔The goal for all children within DCF is to: - ✔✔Establish a safe and permanent home
a soon as possible
✔✔Under the Rilya Wilson Act RWA when must a counselor be notified of an at risk
child's attendance at day care: - ✔✔After 1 unexcused absence or 7 unexcused
absences
✔✔Which need should you address first when preparing a safety plan? - ✔✔Physical
care and safety
✔✔Lisa, age 12, was a foster child in Florida, she was recently placed with her
grandmother in Alabama via Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children(ICPC).
Which state is responsible for writing court reports for Lisa and providing financial
assistance? - ✔✔Florida
✔✔A permanency staffing should be held within how many months from removal? -
✔✔12
✔✔Exit interviews must be conducted within how many days of the child's exit from
foster care? - ✔✔5
,✔✔When must visitation between siblings occur? - ✔✔weekly when they are place
separately
✔✔Following a permanency hearing, which constitutes an exception to filing a
termination of parental rights petition? - ✔✔A petition is not in the best interest of the
child
✔✔A case plan must be prepared on all cases but need not be submitted to court for: -
✔✔A child who will be in care no longer than 30 days
✔✔What must be given to the shelter parents when a child first arrives - ✔✔The child
resource records
✔✔Which of the following statements is false?
-Services stop when a TPR petition is filed
-TPR means termination of parental rights
-TPR can be expedited under circumstances
-A child may be adopted after TPR is granted - ✔✔Services stop when a tpr petition is
filed
✔✔The basic sequence of court involvement is - ✔✔Proof, petition, hearing, order
✔✔What would be unrealistic to expect when closing a case
-Family enhances their ability's to keep the child safe
-The family has achieved total compliance
-The family under stand their dynamic betters
-Substantial compliance from the family - ✔✔The family has achieved total compliance
✔✔Which of the following are grounds for removal?
Refused ruas
Child is abused or neglected in the past
12 yo taking care of a 5 yo
The child is at immediate danger of being abused neglected or abandoned - ✔✔The
child is at immediate danger of being abused neglected or abandoned
✔✔Court involvement will begin upon removal of the child with the - ✔✔filing of the
shelter petition
✔✔When considering case closure it is best practice for a case manager to: -
✔✔Discuss the closing with the family
, ✔✔Which staffing is held for a children 13 yo or older in out out of home placements to
identified their permanency arrangement as well as their life skills educational goals and
career choices - ✔✔Independent living
✔✔What two documents must be filed with the court within 3 business days prior to the
disposition hearing? - ✔✔Predisposition study and case plan
✔✔Petitions are of paramount importance because they - ✔✔Drive case planning
Focus over courts decisions
✔✔A termination of parental rights petition might be filed when - ✔✔Parents have not
regularly visited their child
✔✔What resource guides the counselor with best case management practices -
✔✔Quality practice standards (qps)
✔✔When should you refer a case for termination of parental rights - ✔✔When the
parents egregiously abused a child
✔✔This hearing answers the question "what are the appropriate protection services and
placement for the child?" - ✔✔Disposition hearing
✔✔What does the second judicial review hearing determine for the child -
✔✔Permanency
✔✔If a child is determined to be missing the following info can be released - ✔✔The
child's name, date of birth, and physical description
✔✔What are two types of diligent searches - ✔✔Parent and relative
✔✔The tool used to help children with questions about their past is - ✔✔Life book
✔✔Which must be done prior to adoption - ✔✔Terminate parental rights
✔✔When placing a child in a foster home, all of the following should be met except
-Reasonable proximity to the parents home
-Most family like setting
-Near the school the child attended at time of removal
-Most restrictive setting - ✔✔Most restrictive setting
✔✔What is the primary permanency option if reunification is not appropriate -
✔✔Adoption
EXAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔How is it assessed if the case manager is using best case management practices -
✔✔Through quality service reviews
✔✔Which of the following is not a document to be filled with the court? - ✔✔The Risk
Assessment
✔✔The consequence for not enhancing caregiver protective capacities and not
reducing danger threats to the child must be: - ✔✔A. Understood by all parties
✔✔The primary purpose of the case plan is to: - ✔✔Provide treatment to enhance
caregiver protective capacities
✔✔Any petition you present to the court contains a section dealing with "reasonable
efforts" this deals with efforts made by you to : - ✔✔Prevent child's removal or promote
continuation in the home
✔✔In a case dealing with a possible placement of a child in another state, the sending
state must: - ✔✔Retain court jurisdiction
,✔✔The standard of proof at the shelter hearing is: - ✔✔probable cause
✔✔The standard of proof at the adjudicatory hearing is: - ✔✔preponderance of the
evidence
✔✔Independent living would be considered for children: - ✔✔Over 12 in foster care
status
✔✔If the father is the perpetrator of abuse, the child would be allowed to remain in the
home if: - ✔✔The father has left the home
✔✔Before a child can begin unsupervised or overnight visits with a parent the counselor
must? - ✔✔Complete an updated home study
✔✔What happens when a case plan is not successfully completed? - ✔✔Outcomes are
reviewed for adequacy and appropriateness
✔✔Post placement supervision occurs for a minimum of how long after reunification? -
✔✔6 months
✔✔The judicial review is used to: - ✔✔Show court the degree of progress made
towards the permanency goal and the outcomes of the case plan.
✔✔The goal for all children within DCF is to: - ✔✔Establish a safe and permanent home
a soon as possible
✔✔Under the Rilya Wilson Act RWA when must a counselor be notified of an at risk
child's attendance at day care: - ✔✔After 1 unexcused absence or 7 unexcused
absences
✔✔Which need should you address first when preparing a safety plan? - ✔✔Physical
care and safety
✔✔Lisa, age 12, was a foster child in Florida, she was recently placed with her
grandmother in Alabama via Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children(ICPC).
Which state is responsible for writing court reports for Lisa and providing financial
assistance? - ✔✔Florida
✔✔A permanency staffing should be held within how many months from removal? -
✔✔12
✔✔Exit interviews must be conducted within how many days of the child's exit from
foster care? - ✔✔5
,✔✔When must visitation between siblings occur? - ✔✔weekly when they are place
separately
✔✔Following a permanency hearing, which constitutes an exception to filing a
termination of parental rights petition? - ✔✔A petition is not in the best interest of the
child
✔✔A case plan must be prepared on all cases but need not be submitted to court for: -
✔✔A child who will be in care no longer than 30 days
✔✔What must be given to the shelter parents when a child first arrives - ✔✔The child
resource records
✔✔Which of the following statements is false?
-Services stop when a TPR petition is filed
-TPR means termination of parental rights
-TPR can be expedited under circumstances
-A child may be adopted after TPR is granted - ✔✔Services stop when a tpr petition is
filed
✔✔The basic sequence of court involvement is - ✔✔Proof, petition, hearing, order
✔✔What would be unrealistic to expect when closing a case
-Family enhances their ability's to keep the child safe
-The family has achieved total compliance
-The family under stand their dynamic betters
-Substantial compliance from the family - ✔✔The family has achieved total compliance
✔✔Which of the following are grounds for removal?
Refused ruas
Child is abused or neglected in the past
12 yo taking care of a 5 yo
The child is at immediate danger of being abused neglected or abandoned - ✔✔The
child is at immediate danger of being abused neglected or abandoned
✔✔Court involvement will begin upon removal of the child with the - ✔✔filing of the
shelter petition
✔✔When considering case closure it is best practice for a case manager to: -
✔✔Discuss the closing with the family
, ✔✔Which staffing is held for a children 13 yo or older in out out of home placements to
identified their permanency arrangement as well as their life skills educational goals and
career choices - ✔✔Independent living
✔✔What two documents must be filed with the court within 3 business days prior to the
disposition hearing? - ✔✔Predisposition study and case plan
✔✔Petitions are of paramount importance because they - ✔✔Drive case planning
Focus over courts decisions
✔✔A termination of parental rights petition might be filed when - ✔✔Parents have not
regularly visited their child
✔✔What resource guides the counselor with best case management practices -
✔✔Quality practice standards (qps)
✔✔When should you refer a case for termination of parental rights - ✔✔When the
parents egregiously abused a child
✔✔This hearing answers the question "what are the appropriate protection services and
placement for the child?" - ✔✔Disposition hearing
✔✔What does the second judicial review hearing determine for the child -
✔✔Permanency
✔✔If a child is determined to be missing the following info can be released - ✔✔The
child's name, date of birth, and physical description
✔✔What are two types of diligent searches - ✔✔Parent and relative
✔✔The tool used to help children with questions about their past is - ✔✔Life book
✔✔Which must be done prior to adoption - ✔✔Terminate parental rights
✔✔When placing a child in a foster home, all of the following should be met except
-Reasonable proximity to the parents home
-Most family like setting
-Near the school the child attended at time of removal
-Most restrictive setting - ✔✔Most restrictive setting
✔✔What is the primary permanency option if reunification is not appropriate -
✔✔Adoption
