CWEL & CANS exam 2024
1. Who needs a child welfare license?: Answer- Anyone who works in
child welfare in Illinois
2. 3 outcomes: Answer- safety, permanency, well-being
3. Safety: Answer- Status when an assessment of available information
supports the belief that a child is not in immediate danger of moderate
to severe harm
4. Permanency: Answer- 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
5. Orphan Train: Answer- 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
6. DCFS Mission Statement: Answer- -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
7. Dual Mandate: Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
8. Federal Laws:
Social Security Act: 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.
9. Social Security Title IV-B: Requires federal funding for family suppor
services
10.Social Security Title IV-E: Amends the SSA to include adoption
assistance and child welfare funding and requires responsible efforts to
keep children from entering care
11.Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Addresses the best interests of Native
Amer- ican Children to preserve their generational and tribal ties
12.Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA): Prohibits any consideration of a
child's race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which permanent
placement will be in their best interest
13.Adoption and safe families act (ASFA): 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
14. Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008:
, -
extends assistance of youth to 21
1. Who needs a child welfare license?: Answer- Anyone who works in
child welfare in Illinois
2. 3 outcomes: Answer- safety, permanency, well-being
3. Safety: Answer- Status when an assessment of available information
supports the belief that a child is not in immediate danger of moderate
to severe harm
4. Permanency: Answer- 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
5. Orphan Train: Answer- 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
6. DCFS Mission Statement: Answer- -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
7. Dual Mandate: Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
8. Federal Laws:
Social Security Act: 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.
9. Social Security Title IV-B: Requires federal funding for family suppor
services
10.Social Security Title IV-E: Amends the SSA to include adoption
assistance and child welfare funding and requires responsible efforts to
keep children from entering care
11.Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Addresses the best interests of Native
Amer- ican Children to preserve their generational and tribal ties
12.Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA): Prohibits any consideration of a
child's race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which permanent
placement will be in their best interest
13.Adoption and safe families act (ASFA): 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
14. Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008:
, -
extends assistance of youth to 21
