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Placement Specialty Exam Questions
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Order of Juvenile court hearings ✔✔1. Temporary Custody / Shelter Care Heating
- Adjudication Hearing
- Dispositional Hearing
- Permanency Planning hearings
- Termination Hearing
- but anytime. Status and Progress Hearings
Child welfare professionals as change agents help to ✔✔help families to identify their own problems and help families to recognize their strengths
4 Stages of Interviewing ✔✔-social
- problem definition/needs identification
- focus
- closure
Positive reframing ✔✔a cognitive-behavioral technique involving turning negative messages into positive ones
solution-focused questions ✔✔help the client picture a preferred alternate future
order of placement for a child: ✔✔1) with a non-custodial parent
with siblings in care
with other relatives
with foster caregiver
child and family team meetings ✔✔frequent meetings with families and those involved with serving families are required to plan, assess programs, and decide permanency direction
CANS assessment ✔✔gathers information about the child, not the services they need
Dual mandate ✔✔Protecting children and supporting families
Protection Investigator) to the placement worker (between DCP worker and agency)
10: Placement supervisor assigns case to the placement caseworker.
11: Transitional visit between the CPI and the Assigned Placement agency (in the home of the parent where the DFCS worker is transferring the case to the home)
12: First family meeting (this is not the CFTM) this occurs at 48 hours from case assignment
13: First Parent / Child visit at 48 hours from PC (Protective Custody)
14: Parent / Child visitation plan is filed in court at 10 days from PC
15: The assigned placement worker or the foster parent takes the child(ren) for a Comprehensive Health Works exam at 21 days
16: Completion of the IA (Integrated Assessment) at 35 days (in this we are looking for drug abuse, other abuse is a clinical screening so that we can develop service plan)
17: CFS 497 Service plan is completed at 40 days (can be 40-45 days bc it needs to be filed in court)
Fictive kin ✔✔someone who becomes accepted as part of a family of the child to which he or she has no blood relation
Relative / HMR placement ✔✔Home of a relative, place the child in the home of a family relative, this includes godparents
Concurrent Planning ✔✔Caseworker engages in active efforts to promote family reunification and simultaneously identifies an alternative permanency plan with the knowledge of the parent, child, and foster parent/relative
CIPP (clinical intervention for placement preservation) ✔✔A CIPP staffing is conducted to determine the array and intensity of services needed for a child or youth whose current placement is threatened with disruption or whose care cannot be provided for in his/her current placement. In a CIPP staffing, the caseworker brings together key people in the child/youth's life, with the assistance and support of a trained facilitator who leads a discussion sensitive to the individual needs, motivation and capabilities of the child/youth. Participants are encouraged to offer their assessment of the child/youth's wishes, needs and strengths and to generate ideas on how those wishes, needs and strengths can be best addressed, ideally in the child/youth's current placement.
Expeditated termination ✔✔It is appropriate when "the maltreatment of children is so egregious that efforts should not be made to preserve the family." When this occurs, the child welfare professional should request a legal screening, and the children should be place with families committed to permanency. expedited termination is specified in IL law.
5.Foster Social and Emotional Competence
- Promote Healthy Parent-Child Relationships
- Safety
- Commitment to permanency
Nine possible service plan / permanency goals that you can have for child? ✔✔1.Return home within five months
2.Return home within 12 months - most common
3.Return home pending status hearing
4.Substitute care pending court determination on termination of parental rights
5.Adoption, provided that parental rights have been terminated or relinquished
6.Guardianship
7.Independence
8.Cannot be provided for in a home environment
9.Continuing foster care
Adult Guardianship Act ✔✔Protects adults w/ disabilities from abuse, neglect, financial exploitation or self-neglect. Protects their right to self-determination and offers assistance and support to vulnerable adults who are unable to manage their own affairs. (may not have family)
Diligent Search ✔✔Search for a missing parent that must be conducted within 48 hours after protective custody is taken of a child or prior to the protective custody hearing. In the punitive father's registry we can locate fathers missing
What is the single child welfare task that most increases the rate and success of reunification? ✔✔Visitation
Ecomap ✔✔diagram used to identify the direction and intensity of family relationships between members and/or community institutions of importance to the family
Genogram ✔✔A family diagram that depicts each member of the family and shows connections between the generations.
Substance abuse screening ✔✔Is done by a caseworker to a parent to screen the use of any substances in the family.
Domestic Violence screening ✔✔Done by a caseworker to a parent, history and current events of DV between adults in the family.
-DCP created the initial risk assessment for all indicated cases
-New CANS is completed every 6 months prior to the ACR
Integrated Assessment IA ✔✔The clinical assessor of DCFS and is done with the case worker to assess the family. Prepared after interviewing observations, use of assessment tools and reviewing documents that are part of the assessment process. includes information collected, analysis of the information, conclusions drawn and decisions made for recommended services. It takes into account family strengths, parent/child relationships, family history and the well-being of children.
Which of these documents would your use to support reunification? ✔✔1. CANS
- Recovery Matrix
- SAF checklist
- Progress notes
- Parent - Child visitation notes
- Service plan evaluations
Criteria for Kin Gap ✔✔1. The child must be removed from the home through a judicial determination or a voluntary placement with DCFS.
- Adoption and return home are ruled out.
- The HMR relative home must be licensed for at least 6 months
- Child needs to have been placed in the home for at least 6 months
- If the child is 14 or older they have been consulted on the plan
- Siblings of children placed are also eligible for Kin Gap
- Youth 14 years or older living with a licensed non relative
- With approval may also be eligible for subsidy services (day care, college scholarships, legal fees and post adoption services)
- Provides a subsidy to move to guardianship
What is most likely to cause trauma for a child? ✔✔Removal of a house, foster care in itself is a trauma
Who are eligible for DCFS services? ✔✔You have to be referred by the hotline, need to be under 17 if you are child, and you need to have an allegation of abuse and neglect.
What is Rule 431? ✔✔A confidentiality
Should CANTS and LEADS be shared at case handoff? ✔✔yes
What is the life span approach when dealing with 60 + caregivers? ✔✔-Recognizes that older caregivers will experience physical or cognitive changes as they age, how does that compare to the child's age?
-Normal events should be anticipated and planned for in advance
-We assess the older caregiver: Health, Parenting skills/history, Capability to perform everyday tasks, Extended support, Long term care plan for child and caregiver, Back-up plan.
-Comparing age of child with caregiver as it progresses.
-Prior to finalization of an adoption or guardianship arrangement the following must be completed: 60+ Checklist, Medical Evaluation of an adult (CFS-604), Authorization for Background Check (CFS-718), CANTS 48 (Background Check on Back Up Provider), SERVICES
If a child cannot be adopted what is the next best goal? ✔✔guardianship
Is a goal of independence considered permanency? ✔✔yes.
What is an outcome statement? ✔✔-Something that you want to see happening, not something that should be done to reach the goal (aka action guidelines)
-Outcomes are based on the initial Safety Threats and the Integrated Assessment and other Recommendations
-Should never be written as the completion of a service - i.e. completion of parenting classes; rather what we want to see improved or changed
Can parents with developmental disabilities parent? ✔✔Yes, they may need more support but they can parent.
What is the time frame you must document? ✔✔In every single act of the case.
What hearing does the judge hear progress on the goal? ✔✔Progress hearings
Can case workers provide therapy? ✔✔No
What is shared parenting? ✔✔form of engagement that links parents and caregivers in the development of an
actual partnership focused on the well-being of the child. Could be between foster parents and birth parents.
BH vs. McDonald ✔✔Requires DCFS to meet a standard of care that protects children in DCFS custody from foreseeable and preventable harm. --Provides minimally adequate health care focusing on mental health care, for serious mental health needs.
-Provides minimally adequate training, education, and services to enable children to secure their own safety and provide for their needs.
Burgos vs. Suter ✔✔-Requires DCFS to provide services in Spanish for Spanish-speaking clients.
-Maintain and/or hire a minimum number of bilingual employees.
-Provide a 24-hour central phone number to assist Spanish-speaking clients.
-Provide child welfare and counseling services to Spanish-speaking Hispanic clients by bilingual employees.
-Place Spanish-speaking children of Spanish-speaking clients with Spanish speaking foster parents.
-Ensure bilingual caseworkers do not have larger caseloads that others in the same office.
What is a fiduciary relationship? ✔✔seeking the services of a professional and trusting them to perform with your best interests in mind (ex: doctors, mechanics)
Norman v. Suter ✔✔-Requires DCFS to not remove children or refuse to return children to their parents solely because of poverty/homelessness or living in shelters.
-Establish reasonable time guidelines to return children or initiate court actions to do so.
-Makes reasonable efforts to keep children in parent's custody in domestic violence situations, unless danger is imminent, including exploring alternative housing and shelters for battered women.
Underliying conditions ✔✔-Substance misuse/chemical dependency
-Domestic violence
-parental mental illness
-parental developmental illness
9 Domains of Child Well-Being ✔✔Safety
Physical Needs
Family Attachment
Socialization
Cultural / Spiritual
Emotional / Physiological
Health
