CWEL & CANS exam
1. Who needs a child welfare license?: Anyone who works in child welfare in
Illinois
2. 3 outcomes: safety, permanency, well-being
3. Safety: Status when an assessment of available information supports the belief
that a child is not in immediate danger of moderate to severe harm
4. Permanency: A continuous living arrangement designed to meet a child's needs,
increases his/her sense of emotional well-being, and establish legal bonds to a place
and family
5. Orphan Train: Placed 150,000 poor/orphan children from eastern cities with
Midwest farm families
Some of these children became members of these families, but many were valued
only as farm laborers
6. DCFS Mission Statement: -Protect children who are reported to be abused or
neglected and to increase their families capacity to safely care for them
-Provide for the well-being of children in our care
-Provide appropriate, permanent families as quickly as possible for those children
who cannot safely return home
-Support early intervention and child abuse prevention services
-Work in partnership with communities to fulfill this mission
7. Dual Mandate: Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
8. Federal Laws:
Social Security Act: system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims
of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and
children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
9. Social Security Title IV-B: Requires federal funding for family support services
10. Social Security Title IV-E: Amends the SSA to include adoption assistance and
child welfare funding and requires responsible efforts to keep children from entering
care
11. Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Addresses the best interests of Native Amer-
ican Children to preserve their generational and tribal ties
12. Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA): Prohibits any consideration of a child's race
or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which permanent placement will be in their best
interest
13. Adoption and safe families act (ASFA): Amends title IV-E to require efforts to
move a child to permanency, requiring judicial permanency hearing for children no
later than 12 months after the child enters child care
14. Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008: -
extends assistance of youth to 21
, CWEL & CANS exam
requires that a transition plan be developed with youth and he/she ages out of foster
care
15. State Laws:
Children and Family services act: specifies the general duties and responsibilities
of DCFS
16. Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA): Guides the day by day
work of child professionals in Illinois
Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters, how to
accept and investigate reports and provide follow up services
17. Juvenile Court Act: Establishes authority of Juvenile court to intervene in the
lives of children and families
18. Adoption Act: Specifies the grounds for parental unfitness and procedures
governing adoption of children
19. Child care act: Establishes the licensing regulations governing child welfare
agencies, foster family homes, group homes, child care institutions, day care agen-
cies, and individual day care providers
20. Interstate compact placement: Governs the provision of care for children in
foster care from one state to another
21. Interstate compact adoption: Governs provisions of medical care to children
who are adopted in one state and move to another state
22. Emancipation of mature minors act: Mature minors demonstrating ability and
capacity to manage their own affairs may obtain legal status of emancipated person
23. Foster Parent Law: Outlines foster parents rights and responsibilities
24. Abandoned newborn infant: "safe haven act"
Allows an infant 30 days old or less to be relinquished to a hospital, police station,
or emergency medical facility without question or consequence to the parents
25. Domestic Violence Act: Allows individuals to request orders of protection
against individuals in inflicting physical abuse or neglect to family or household
members
26. Probate Act: Governs guardianship to minors and adults
27. Consent Decrees: Have the force of law and child welfare professionals must
comply with their requirements
28. Aristotle: Diligent search to locate joint placement for siblings
29. Bates: Weekly parent/child visitation
30. BH: Standard of care
31. Burgos: Spanish speaking client services
32. Hill: pregnant and parenting DCFS wards
33. In re Lee/Wesley: Cook County guardian must be notified if ward if admitted to
a mental health/ substance use facility
1. Who needs a child welfare license?: Anyone who works in child welfare in
Illinois
2. 3 outcomes: safety, permanency, well-being
3. Safety: Status when an assessment of available information supports the belief
that a child is not in immediate danger of moderate to severe harm
4. Permanency: A continuous living arrangement designed to meet a child's needs,
increases his/her sense of emotional well-being, and establish legal bonds to a place
and family
5. Orphan Train: Placed 150,000 poor/orphan children from eastern cities with
Midwest farm families
Some of these children became members of these families, but many were valued
only as farm laborers
6. DCFS Mission Statement: -Protect children who are reported to be abused or
neglected and to increase their families capacity to safely care for them
-Provide for the well-being of children in our care
-Provide appropriate, permanent families as quickly as possible for those children
who cannot safely return home
-Support early intervention and child abuse prevention services
-Work in partnership with communities to fulfill this mission
7. Dual Mandate: Protect Children and Strengthen/Preserve families
8. Federal Laws:
Social Security Act: system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims
of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and
children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
9. Social Security Title IV-B: Requires federal funding for family support services
10. Social Security Title IV-E: Amends the SSA to include adoption assistance and
child welfare funding and requires responsible efforts to keep children from entering
care
11. Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Addresses the best interests of Native Amer-
ican Children to preserve their generational and tribal ties
12. Inter-Ethnic Placement Act (IEPA): Prohibits any consideration of a child's race
or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which permanent placement will be in their best
interest
13. Adoption and safe families act (ASFA): Amends title IV-E to require efforts to
move a child to permanency, requiring judicial permanency hearing for children no
later than 12 months after the child enters child care
14. Fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act of 2008: -
extends assistance of youth to 21
, CWEL & CANS exam
requires that a transition plan be developed with youth and he/she ages out of foster
care
15. State Laws:
Children and Family services act: specifies the general duties and responsibilities
of DCFS
16. Abused and Neglected Child Reporting act (ANCRA): Guides the day by day
work of child professionals in Illinois
Defines abuse, neglect, how to report allegations, mandated reporters, how to
accept and investigate reports and provide follow up services
17. Juvenile Court Act: Establishes authority of Juvenile court to intervene in the
lives of children and families
18. Adoption Act: Specifies the grounds for parental unfitness and procedures
governing adoption of children
19. Child care act: Establishes the licensing regulations governing child welfare
agencies, foster family homes, group homes, child care institutions, day care agen-
cies, and individual day care providers
20. Interstate compact placement: Governs the provision of care for children in
foster care from one state to another
21. Interstate compact adoption: Governs provisions of medical care to children
who are adopted in one state and move to another state
22. Emancipation of mature minors act: Mature minors demonstrating ability and
capacity to manage their own affairs may obtain legal status of emancipated person
23. Foster Parent Law: Outlines foster parents rights and responsibilities
24. Abandoned newborn infant: "safe haven act"
Allows an infant 30 days old or less to be relinquished to a hospital, police station,
or emergency medical facility without question or consequence to the parents
25. Domestic Violence Act: Allows individuals to request orders of protection
against individuals in inflicting physical abuse or neglect to family or household
members
26. Probate Act: Governs guardianship to minors and adults
27. Consent Decrees: Have the force of law and child welfare professionals must
comply with their requirements
28. Aristotle: Diligent search to locate joint placement for siblings
29. Bates: Weekly parent/child visitation
30. BH: Standard of care
31. Burgos: Spanish speaking client services
32. Hill: pregnant and parenting DCFS wards
33. In re Lee/Wesley: Cook County guardian must be notified if ward if admitted to
a mental health/ substance use facility
