CANS PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS
◉ What are 3 outcomes?
Answer: Permanency, Safety, and well being of children
◉ What is the orphan train movement?
Answer: from 1850's- 1900's, a train took orphans from very poor
families on east coast to midwest farm families.
◉ What is the DCFS mission?
Answer: To protect children reported to have been abused or
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
◉ What is Duel Mandate?
Answer: protecting children AND supporting families- we don't view
children as isolated units we view the family as a unit and suppor
that child's membership in the family.
◉ Social Security Act Title IV-E
,Answer: Requirement for states to receive funding for child welfare
services
◉ Indian Child Welfare Act
Answer: protects best interest of native children, grants jurisdiction,
preferrd placement with tribes
◉ Inter- Ethnic Placement Act
Answer: law prohibits consideration of a child's race in placement
options
◉ Adaptation and Safe Families Act
Answer: Requires reasonable efforts to move kids to permanency
within 12 months- goal is to not let children lanquish in care.
◉ Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adaptions Act
Answer: Extends assistance 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.
◉ Children and Families Services Act
Answer: Established DCFS, spells out duties, responsibilities, and
obligations
, ◉ 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
◉ Juvenile Court Act
Answer: Grants authority of the court to intervene into the lives of
youth and families.
◉ Child Care Act
Answer: Licensing regulations for child welfare agencies, foster
homes, daycare, residential treatment centers...etc.
◉ Interstate Compact on Placement of Children
Answer: Establishes who is going to be responsible for that
particular case.
◉ Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance
Answer: means you can't place a child in any state. You must get
permission from that state's Child protection service.
◉ Emancipation of Mature Minors Act
SOLUTIONS
◉ What are 3 outcomes?
Answer: Permanency, Safety, and well being of children
◉ What is the orphan train movement?
Answer: from 1850's- 1900's, a train took orphans from very poor
families on east coast to midwest farm families.
◉ What is the DCFS mission?
Answer: To protect children reported to have been abused or
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
◉ What is Duel Mandate?
Answer: protecting children AND supporting families- we don't view
children as isolated units we view the family as a unit and suppor
that child's membership in the family.
◉ Social Security Act Title IV-E
,Answer: Requirement for states to receive funding for child welfare
services
◉ Indian Child Welfare Act
Answer: protects best interest of native children, grants jurisdiction,
preferrd placement with tribes
◉ Inter- Ethnic Placement Act
Answer: law prohibits consideration of a child's race in placement
options
◉ Adaptation and Safe Families Act
Answer: Requires reasonable efforts to move kids to permanency
within 12 months- goal is to not let children lanquish in care.
◉ Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adaptions Act
Answer: Extends assistance 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.
◉ Children and Families Services Act
Answer: Established DCFS, spells out duties, responsibilities, and
obligations
, ◉ 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
◉ Juvenile Court Act
Answer: Grants authority of the court to intervene into the lives of
youth and families.
◉ Child Care Act
Answer: Licensing regulations for child welfare agencies, foster
homes, daycare, residential treatment centers...etc.
◉ Interstate Compact on Placement of Children
Answer: Establishes who is going to be responsible for that
particular case.
◉ Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance
Answer: means you can't place a child in any state. You must get
permission from that state's Child protection service.
◉ Emancipation of Mature Minors Act
