CPI CERTIFICATION TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What are the options for a safety plan? - ✔✔- Shelter (most intrusive)
- In-home judicial (dependency petition)
- In-home non-judicial (least intrusive)
✔✔When does court involvement begin? - ✔✔Upon removal (shelter petition).
✔✔Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) - ✔✔Allows states to
find out if any other state has jurisdiction over a family.
✔✔Shelter hearing - ✔✔Held within 24 hours of removal. (probable cause)
✔✔Adjudicatory hearing - ✔✔Held within 30 days of arraignment. (preponderance of
evidence)
✔✔Disposition hearing - ✔✔To find and order protections, services, and placement of a
dependent child. (CPI is done)
✔✔Initial judicial review - ✔✔Review permanency goal (4-6 months after removal)
✔✔Second judicial review hearing - ✔✔The status of the child is reviewed and
permanency is discussed. (must be held every 6 months if deemed necessary)
✔✔Permanency hearing - ✔✔Determine if the child will achieve permanency goal or to
modify goal, within 12 months of child's removal, within 30 days if reasonable efforts to
reunify are not required, at least every 12 months while the child is in care
✔✔TPR petition and hearing - ✔✔A trial to decide if parental rights should be
terminated so the child can be adopted
✔✔CTS: - ✔✔Case transfer staffing
✔✔When a child comes into care, they must have: - ✔✔- Medical appointment
- Fingerprints
- Child resource record
✔✔FFA: - ✔✔Family Functioning Assessment
✔✔Major times for brain development are: - ✔✔Ages 0-3 and ages 15-16
✔✔The majority of children entering child welfare are ages: - ✔✔0-5 (54%)
, ✔✔What are the four developmental domains? - ✔✔Emotional, physical, social, and
cognitive.
✔✔What are the core conditions for building trust? - ✔✔-Genuineness
-Respect
-Empathy
✔✔Exception-finding question - ✔✔"Tell me about times when that problem did not
occur." "What was life like prior to..."
✔✔Mental health: - ✔✔The state of emotional and psychological well-being.
✔✔Behavioral health: - ✔✔Focuses on the holistic view of human behavior and the
well-being of the body.
✔✔What maltreatment requires you to call the hotline? - ✔✔Death
✔✔In-home intake: - ✔✔When the maltreatment happened within the home.
✔✔Institutional intake: - ✔✔When an individual from a facility is the alleged perpetrator.
✔✔"Other" reported intake: - ✔✔Individuals who are in a babysitting role to the child
and abuse, neglect, or abandonment has taken place.
✔✔Caregiver Unavailable special condition referral: - ✔✔No known legal caregiver for
the child (death, incarceration, hospitalized).
✔✔Foster care referral: - ✔✔Calls to the Hotline regarding concerns about the care
provided in a licensed foster home, group home or emergency shelter that do not meet
the criteria for acceptance of a report of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
✔✔Parent Needs Assistance referral: - ✔✔Situations that do not statutorily meet the
criteria for an abuse, abandonment, or neglect report but the caregivers may need
services.
✔✔Child-on-Child Sexual Abuse - ✔✔Calls alleging sexual behavior between children,
when the aggressor child is 17 years or younger, which occurs without consent, without
equality, or as a result of coercion.
✔✔How long can special condition referrals stay open for? - ✔✔30 days.
✔✔How long can intakes stay open for? - ✔✔60 days.
✔✔How many maltreatment's are there? - ✔✔27
WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What are the options for a safety plan? - ✔✔- Shelter (most intrusive)
- In-home judicial (dependency petition)
- In-home non-judicial (least intrusive)
✔✔When does court involvement begin? - ✔✔Upon removal (shelter petition).
✔✔Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) - ✔✔Allows states to
find out if any other state has jurisdiction over a family.
✔✔Shelter hearing - ✔✔Held within 24 hours of removal. (probable cause)
✔✔Adjudicatory hearing - ✔✔Held within 30 days of arraignment. (preponderance of
evidence)
✔✔Disposition hearing - ✔✔To find and order protections, services, and placement of a
dependent child. (CPI is done)
✔✔Initial judicial review - ✔✔Review permanency goal (4-6 months after removal)
✔✔Second judicial review hearing - ✔✔The status of the child is reviewed and
permanency is discussed. (must be held every 6 months if deemed necessary)
✔✔Permanency hearing - ✔✔Determine if the child will achieve permanency goal or to
modify goal, within 12 months of child's removal, within 30 days if reasonable efforts to
reunify are not required, at least every 12 months while the child is in care
✔✔TPR petition and hearing - ✔✔A trial to decide if parental rights should be
terminated so the child can be adopted
✔✔CTS: - ✔✔Case transfer staffing
✔✔When a child comes into care, they must have: - ✔✔- Medical appointment
- Fingerprints
- Child resource record
✔✔FFA: - ✔✔Family Functioning Assessment
✔✔Major times for brain development are: - ✔✔Ages 0-3 and ages 15-16
✔✔The majority of children entering child welfare are ages: - ✔✔0-5 (54%)
, ✔✔What are the four developmental domains? - ✔✔Emotional, physical, social, and
cognitive.
✔✔What are the core conditions for building trust? - ✔✔-Genuineness
-Respect
-Empathy
✔✔Exception-finding question - ✔✔"Tell me about times when that problem did not
occur." "What was life like prior to..."
✔✔Mental health: - ✔✔The state of emotional and psychological well-being.
✔✔Behavioral health: - ✔✔Focuses on the holistic view of human behavior and the
well-being of the body.
✔✔What maltreatment requires you to call the hotline? - ✔✔Death
✔✔In-home intake: - ✔✔When the maltreatment happened within the home.
✔✔Institutional intake: - ✔✔When an individual from a facility is the alleged perpetrator.
✔✔"Other" reported intake: - ✔✔Individuals who are in a babysitting role to the child
and abuse, neglect, or abandonment has taken place.
✔✔Caregiver Unavailable special condition referral: - ✔✔No known legal caregiver for
the child (death, incarceration, hospitalized).
✔✔Foster care referral: - ✔✔Calls to the Hotline regarding concerns about the care
provided in a licensed foster home, group home or emergency shelter that do not meet
the criteria for acceptance of a report of abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
✔✔Parent Needs Assistance referral: - ✔✔Situations that do not statutorily meet the
criteria for an abuse, abandonment, or neglect report but the caregivers may need
services.
✔✔Child-on-Child Sexual Abuse - ✔✔Calls alleging sexual behavior between children,
when the aggressor child is 17 years or younger, which occurs without consent, without
equality, or as a result of coercion.
✔✔How long can special condition referrals stay open for? - ✔✔30 days.
✔✔How long can intakes stay open for? - ✔✔60 days.
✔✔How many maltreatment's are there? - ✔✔27
