CWEL & CANS exam Questions and Answers
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Who needs a child welfare license? - ✔✔Anyone who works in child welfare in Illinois
3 outcomes - ✔✔safety, permanency, well-being
Safety - ✔✔Status when an assessment of available information supports the belief that a child is not in
immediate danger of moderate to severe harm
Permanency - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
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,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.
Social Security Title IV-B - ✔✔Requires federal funding for family support services
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
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) - ✔✔Addresses the best interests of Native American Children to
preserve their generational and tribal ties
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
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
Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔specifies the general duties and responsibilities of DCFS
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA) - ✔✔Guides the day by day work of child
professionals in Illinois
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, Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters, how to accept and investigate
reports and provide follow up services
Juvenile Court Act - ✔✔Establishes authority of Juvenile court to intervene in the lives of children and
families
Adoption Act - ✔✔Specifies the grounds for parental unfitness and procedures governing adoption of
children
Child care act - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Governs the provision of care for children in foster care from one state
to another
Interstate compact adoption - ✔✔Governs provisions of medical care to children who are adopted in one
state and move to another state
Emancipation of mature minors act - ✔✔Mature minors demonstrating ability and capacity to manage
their own affairs may obtain legal status of emancipated person
Foster Parent Law - ✔✔Outlines foster parents rights and responsibilities
Abandoned newborn infant - ✔✔"safe haven act"
Allows an infant 30 days old or less to be relinquished to a hospital, police station, or emergency medical
facility without question or consequence to the parents
Domestic Violence Act - ✔✔Allows individuals to request orders of protection against individuals in
inflicting physical abuse or neglect to family or household members
Probate Act - ✔✔Governs guardianship to minors and adults
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100% Pass
Who needs a child welfare license? - ✔✔Anyone who works in child welfare in Illinois
3 outcomes - ✔✔safety, permanency, well-being
Safety - ✔✔Status when an assessment of available information supports the belief that a child is not in
immediate danger of moderate to severe harm
Permanency - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
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,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.
Social Security Title IV-B - ✔✔Requires federal funding for family support services
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
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) - ✔✔Addresses the best interests of Native American Children to
preserve their generational and tribal ties
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
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
Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔specifies the general duties and responsibilities of DCFS
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA) - ✔✔Guides the day by day work of child
professionals in Illinois
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, Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters, how to accept and investigate
reports and provide follow up services
Juvenile Court Act - ✔✔Establishes authority of Juvenile court to intervene in the lives of children and
families
Adoption Act - ✔✔Specifies the grounds for parental unfitness and procedures governing adoption of
children
Child care act - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Governs the provision of care for children in foster care from one state
to another
Interstate compact adoption - ✔✔Governs provisions of medical care to children who are adopted in one
state and move to another state
Emancipation of mature minors act - ✔✔Mature minors demonstrating ability and capacity to manage
their own affairs may obtain legal status of emancipated person
Foster Parent Law - ✔✔Outlines foster parents rights and responsibilities
Abandoned newborn infant - ✔✔"safe haven act"
Allows an infant 30 days old or less to be relinquished to a hospital, police station, or emergency medical
facility without question or consequence to the parents
Domestic Violence Act - ✔✔Allows individuals to request orders of protection against individuals in
inflicting physical abuse or neglect to family or household members
Probate Act - ✔✔Governs guardianship to minors and adults
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