DCFS Placement (2025) EXAM QUESTIONS AND ALL CORRECT
ANSWERS 100% SOLVED AND GUARANTEED SUCCESS!!
Terms in this set (20)
1. Foster and relative caregivers are part of Child & Family Team
2. Caseworkers must provide all available information about
children's strengths and needs in relation to health, education,
Working with Caregivers
psychological-emotional and physical
development to ensure caregiver's ability to appropriately care for children
3. Fully disclose to caregiver - children's current legal status and
permanency goals and update on progress or lack thereof in
achieving permanency
A continuous living arrangement designed to meet a child's developmental
Permanency Definition needs,
increase his/her sense of emotional well being and establish
legal bonds to a place and family.
1. Discuss children's needs, behaviors, adjustment to
placement, and separation/loss issues with caregivers
2. Make timely and appropriate referrals for services to meet
Working with Caregivers (cont.) children's needs and support the children's placements.
3. Involve caregivers in the plan for the child
4. Involve caregivers in reunification activities like parent/child visits,
sibling visits, etc
, 1. Find opportunities to coach/mentor biological parents
2. Support children's attempt to understand their situation
How Foster Parents can Support 3. Keep in touch with case worker about family's situation as it
Visits relates to permanency goals
4. Develop effective working relationship with biological parents
1. Are they ready to assume care for the child?
2. Can they care for child 5 yrs into the future?
3. Does caregiver depend on extraordinary assistance to care for
Questions to Consider in Making themselves and the child?
Decisions about Placement w
Older Caregivers 4. Do caregiver's own health needs present a serious obstacle to
care or well being of child?
5. Is
caregiver able to make appropriate judgements on the child's behalf
Developed by older caregiver and extended family and spells out
what will happen if/when older caregiver can no longer care
What is a Back - Up Plan?
for child
Must be specific in writing and legal if possible
Predictable contingencies
What will or will not be covered in subsidy agreement
Full disclosure about needs of child and responsibilities of back up care
provider
Back - Up Plan Must Cover
Back up care provider should be informed about limiting factors
of older caregiver's situation so they can make a fully informed
decision
Extended Family Support Program is designed to deflect
children from the child welfare system and to stabilize relative
caregiver families.
DCFS selects the permanency goal with input from Child & Family Team
Permanency Goals Occur
First 12 months of placement cases
ANSWERS 100% SOLVED AND GUARANTEED SUCCESS!!
Terms in this set (20)
1. Foster and relative caregivers are part of Child & Family Team
2. Caseworkers must provide all available information about
children's strengths and needs in relation to health, education,
Working with Caregivers
psychological-emotional and physical
development to ensure caregiver's ability to appropriately care for children
3. Fully disclose to caregiver - children's current legal status and
permanency goals and update on progress or lack thereof in
achieving permanency
A continuous living arrangement designed to meet a child's developmental
Permanency Definition needs,
increase his/her sense of emotional well being and establish
legal bonds to a place and family.
1. Discuss children's needs, behaviors, adjustment to
placement, and separation/loss issues with caregivers
2. Make timely and appropriate referrals for services to meet
Working with Caregivers (cont.) children's needs and support the children's placements.
3. Involve caregivers in the plan for the child
4. Involve caregivers in reunification activities like parent/child visits,
sibling visits, etc
, 1. Find opportunities to coach/mentor biological parents
2. Support children's attempt to understand their situation
How Foster Parents can Support 3. Keep in touch with case worker about family's situation as it
Visits relates to permanency goals
4. Develop effective working relationship with biological parents
1. Are they ready to assume care for the child?
2. Can they care for child 5 yrs into the future?
3. Does caregiver depend on extraordinary assistance to care for
Questions to Consider in Making themselves and the child?
Decisions about Placement w
Older Caregivers 4. Do caregiver's own health needs present a serious obstacle to
care or well being of child?
5. Is
caregiver able to make appropriate judgements on the child's behalf
Developed by older caregiver and extended family and spells out
what will happen if/when older caregiver can no longer care
What is a Back - Up Plan?
for child
Must be specific in writing and legal if possible
Predictable contingencies
What will or will not be covered in subsidy agreement
Full disclosure about needs of child and responsibilities of back up care
provider
Back - Up Plan Must Cover
Back up care provider should be informed about limiting factors
of older caregiver's situation so they can make a fully informed
decision
Extended Family Support Program is designed to deflect
children from the child welfare system and to stabilize relative
caregiver families.
DCFS selects the permanency goal with input from Child & Family Team
Permanency Goals Occur
First 12 months of placement cases
