CERAP EXAMINATION QUESTION AND ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATE (ALREADY RATED A+)
What does CERAP stand for?
Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol.
What is the CERAP?
A life of the case assessment designed to provide workers with a mechanism to quickly assessing the
potential for moderate to severe harm immediately or in the near future and for taking quick action to
protect children.
What are the four steps to protecting children?
1. Information gathering
2. Information analysis
3. Drawings conclusions
4. Making decisions
What are the contents of the protocol?
1. Safety determination form (safety assessment)
2. Safety plan
3. Practice guidelines
Define safety
After you've considered vulnerability and 16 safety threats, it is determined that a child in a household
or in custodial care is not likely to be moderately or severely harmed immediately or in the near future.
Define moderate to severe harm
Use DID (Death, impairment, or disfigurement). Danger to a child's life or health.
Define unsafe
After you've considered vulnerability and 16 safety threats, it is determined that a child in a household
or in custodial care is likely to be moderately to severely harmed immediately or in the near future
What would be the result of determining a child is unsafe?
Either create a safety plan or have protective custody taken depending on the situation.
Define immediately or in the near future
Between now and the next time you see the family.
Define risk
LATEST UPDATE (ALREADY RATED A+)
What does CERAP stand for?
Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol.
What is the CERAP?
A life of the case assessment designed to provide workers with a mechanism to quickly assessing the
potential for moderate to severe harm immediately or in the near future and for taking quick action to
protect children.
What are the four steps to protecting children?
1. Information gathering
2. Information analysis
3. Drawings conclusions
4. Making decisions
What are the contents of the protocol?
1. Safety determination form (safety assessment)
2. Safety plan
3. Practice guidelines
Define safety
After you've considered vulnerability and 16 safety threats, it is determined that a child in a household
or in custodial care is not likely to be moderately or severely harmed immediately or in the near future.
Define moderate to severe harm
Use DID (Death, impairment, or disfigurement). Danger to a child's life or health.
Define unsafe
After you've considered vulnerability and 16 safety threats, it is determined that a child in a household
or in custodial care is likely to be moderately to severely harmed immediately or in the near future
What would be the result of determining a child is unsafe?
Either create a safety plan or have protective custody taken depending on the situation.
Define immediately or in the near future
Between now and the next time you see the family.
Define risk
