Placement specialty exam CW questions and answers 2023
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Order of Juvenile court hearings
1. Temporary Custody / Shelter Care Heating
2. Adjudication Hearing
3. Dispositional Hearing
4. Permanency Planning hearings
5. Termination Hearing
6. 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
2) with siblings in care
3) with other relatives
4) 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
4 types of supervision
1. Educational: directed toward helping staff learn what they need to know to carry out
their job responsibilities;
2. Supportive: directed toward creating a positive psychological and physical climate for
staff;
3. Administrative: focuses on job performance and how it is related to the agency's
mission;
4. Clinical: directed toward clinical interventions.
Steps of a placement planning case
, 1: The DCFS / SCR (State Central Registry) is called by a mandated reporter
2: DCP opens the case or CPI
3: Investigation occurs
4: DCP attempts to keep the family reunified
5: Protective Custody (PC) if taken
6: The DCP worker prior to placement takes the child(ren) for a Health Works Screen
7: CAPU (Case assignment Unit)
8: TC (temporary custody) hearing occurs also called the shelter care hearing
9: Handoff from DCP (department of Child Protection) also referred to as CPI (Child
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
with complete solution
Order of Juvenile court hearings
1. Temporary Custody / Shelter Care Heating
2. Adjudication Hearing
3. Dispositional Hearing
4. Permanency Planning hearings
5. Termination Hearing
6. 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
2) with siblings in care
3) with other relatives
4) 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
4 types of supervision
1. Educational: directed toward helping staff learn what they need to know to carry out
their job responsibilities;
2. Supportive: directed toward creating a positive psychological and physical climate for
staff;
3. Administrative: focuses on job performance and how it is related to the agency's
mission;
4. Clinical: directed toward clinical interventions.
Steps of a placement planning case
, 1: The DCFS / SCR (State Central Registry) is called by a mandated reporter
2: DCP opens the case or CPI
3: Investigation occurs
4: DCP attempts to keep the family reunified
5: Protective Custody (PC) if taken
6: The DCP worker prior to placement takes the child(ren) for a Health Works Screen
7: CAPU (Case assignment Unit)
8: TC (temporary custody) hearing occurs also called the shelter care hearing
9: Handoff from DCP (department of Child Protection) also referred to as CPI (Child
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
