Child Welfare Certification Exam Prep (Latest 2023/ 2024 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct

Child Welfare Certification Exam Prep (Latest 2023/ 2024 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct

Child Welfare Certification Exam Prep
(Latest 2023/ 2024 Update) Questions and
Verified Answers| 100% Correct
Q: 3 Protective Capacity Areas
Answer:

1. Cognitive
2. Behavioral
3. Emotional
   Q: Legal definition of the term child
   Answer:
   Chapter 39, Florida Statutes:
   o “any unmarried person under the age of 18 years who has not been emancipated by order of the
   court”
   o The terms child and youth are interchangeable
   Q: Present Danger
   Answer:
   Usually identified at initial contact, however can occur during the course of an investigation or
   while the family is receiving case management services . Serious harm will result without
   prompt investigation and/or case manager response
   Q: Define Impending Danger
   Answer:

• Child living or being in a position of continual or pervasive danger.
• Threats are not immediate, obvious or active at the onset of investigation.
• Are identified and understood upon gathering sufficient family functioning information.
  Q: Factors of Impending Danger
  Answer:

1. Imminent
2. Out of Control
3. Vulnerable Child
4. Observable
5. Severity
   Q: What is the most common maltreatment reported?
   Answer:
   Neglect – especially in infants
   Q: Three-Tiered Hierarchy of Safety
   Answer:

• Core Level:
  o Physical safety: a child is not at risk of injury or threats of injury.
• Second level:
  o Social safety: refers to an interpersonal sense of the child being safe from verbal abuse, verbal
  threats or teasing.
• Last level:
  o Emotional safety: you have an internal sense of being safe.
  Q: What is trauma
  Answer:

Trauma is an emotional response to an event. The emotional response is intense, distressing
and/or painful and can overwhelm your ability to cope. There can be direct involvement in the
event or indirect through witnessing the event.
Q: ACE
Answer:
Adverse childhood experiences
Q: Child Traumatic Stress (CTS)
Answer:
A psychological reaction that some children have to a traumatic experience
Q: Complex trauma
Answer:
o Involves simultaneous or sequential occurrences of child maltreatment – including
psychological maltreatment, neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and domestic violence – that is
chronic, begins in early childhood, and occurs within the primary caregiving system.
o Often sets off a chain of events leading to subsequent or repeated trauma exposure in
adolescence and adulthood.
Q: Three levels of CTS
Answer:
o Acute traumatic stress refers to exposure to a single event, such as a car accident.
o Chronic traumatic stress refers to repeated events, such as physical or sexual abuse or exposure
to ongoing domestic violence.
o Complex traumatic stress refers to exposure to chronic, multiple types of trauma.

Q: Early childhood trauma
Answer:
Generally refers to the traumatic experiences that occur to children aged 0-6. These traumas can
be the result of intentional violence, such as child physical or sexual abuse and/or domestic
violence, the persistent absence of responsive care or as the result of a natural disaster, accidents,
or war
Q: Domestic violence
Answer:
(intimate partner violence, domestic abuse, or battering): Actual or threatened physical or sexual
violence, or emotional abuse between adults in an intimate relationship
Q: Physical abuse
Answer:
Causing or attempting to cause physical pain or injury. It can result from punching, beating,
kicking, burning or harming a child in other ways.
Q: Child sexual abuse
Answer:
Takes place between a child and an older person or alternatively between a child and another
child/adolescent.
o Bodily contact: Such as sexual kissing, touching, fondling of genitals, and intercourse.
o No bodily contact: Genital exposure (‘flashing’), verbal pressure for sex, and sexual
exploitation for purposes of prostitution or pornography.
Q: Child neglect
Answer:
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Dependency Petition
Court ordered services due to no change in action or child’s safety is at risk

Shelter Petition
Attempt to remove child from care giver and be placed elsewhere

ASFA-Adoption and Safe Family Act of 1997
Reach permanency within 1 year from removal

ICWA-Indian Child Welfare Act
If family is a part of an Indian tribe then CPI will have to get with legal to see if the tribe will handle the allegations of if CPI will move forward with the investigation

MEPA-Multi Ethnic Placement Act
This act does not allow a child to be held back from placement or permanency based on the child’s race, gender, religion etc.

4 Work Principles-Principle 1
The health and safety of the child is the top priority

4 Work Principles-Principle 2
Work as partners with the families: Respect them, engage them etc.

4 Work Principles-Principle 3
Always begin with the least intrusive actions that are possible and reasonable. Be objective and keep the child’s safety in the forefront of your mind

4 Work Principles-Principle 4
Prevention and intervention should result in protecting children and supporting families

Practice Model

1. Hotline
2. CPI FFA
3. Ongoing Family Functioning
4. Safety plan and case plan evaluation
5. Anticipated intervention

FFA-6 Domains

1. Maltreatment
2. Circumstances surrounding the circumstances
3. Child functioning
4. Adult Functioning
5. General Parenting
6. Parent Discipline Approach

Least Intrusive
The combination of interventions that will be the most effective, cause the least disruption to the child and family’s normal routines and will e aligned to the fullest extent feasible with the family’s references, culture and values

Caregiver Protective Capacities
The personal and caregiving behavioral, cognitive and emotional characteristics that specifically and directly can be associated with being protective to one’s children. When the caregivers responsible are able to effectively manage negative family conditions in the home for the long term, the child is safe. Protective capacities are personal qualities or characteristics that contribute to vigilant child protection

3 Protective Capacity Areas

1. Cognitive
2. Behavioral
3. Emotional

Legal definition of the term child
Chapter 39, Florida Statutes:
o “any unmarried person under the age of 18 years who has not been emancipated by order of the court”
o The terms child and youth are interchangeable

Present Danger
Usually identified at initial contact, however can occur during the course of an investigation or while the family is receiving case management services . Serious harm will result without prompt investigation and/or case manager response

Define Impending Danger

• Child living or being in a position of continual or pervasive danger.
• Threats are not immediate, obvious or active at the onset of investigation.
• Are identified and understood upon gathering sufficient family functioning information.

Factors of Impending Danger

1. Imminent
2. Out of Control
3. Vulnerable Child
4. Observable
5. Severity

What is the most common maltreatment reported?
Neglect – especially in infants

Three-Tiered Hierarchy of Safety

• Core Level:
  o Physical safety: a child is not at risk of injury or threats of injury.
• Second level:
  o Social safety: refers to an interpersonal sense of the child being safe from verbal abuse, verbal threats or teasing.
• Last level:
  o Emotional safety: you have an internal sense of being safe.

What is trauma
Trauma is an emotional response to an event. The emotional response is intense, distressing and/or painful and can overwhelm your ability to cope. There can be direct involvement in the event or indirect through witnessing the event.

ACE
Adverse childhood experiences

Child Traumatic Stress (CTS)
A psychological reaction that some children have to a traumatic experience

Complex trauma
o Involves simultaneous or sequential occurrences of child maltreatment – including psychological maltreatment, neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and domestic violence – that is chronic, begins in early childhood, and occurs within the primary caregiving system.
o Often sets off a chain of events leading to subsequent or repeated trauma exposure in adolescence and adulthood.

Three levels of CTS
o Acute traumatic stress refers to exposure to a single event, such as a car accident.
o Chronic traumatic stress refers to repeated events, such as physical or sexual abuse or exposure to ongoing domestic violence.
o Complex traumatic stress refers to exposure to chronic, multiple types of trauma.

Early childhood trauma
Generally refers to the traumatic experiences that occur to children aged 0-6. These traumas can be the result of intentional violence, such as child physical or sexual abuse and/or domestic violence, the persistent absence of responsive care or as the result of a natural disaster, accidents, or war

Domestic violence
(intimate partner violence, domestic abuse, or battering): Actual or threatened physical or sexual violence, or emotional abuse between adults in an intimate relationship

Physical abuse
Causing or attempting to cause physical pain or injury. It can result from punching, beating, kicking, burning or harming a child in other ways.

Child sexual abuse
Takes place between a child and an older person or alternatively between a child and another child/adolescent.
o Bodily contact: Such as sexual kissing, touching, fondling of genitals, and intercourse.
o No bodily contact: Genital exposure (‘flashing’), verbal pressure for sex, and sexual exploitation for purposes of prostitution or pornography.

Child neglect
o When a parent or caregiver does not give a child the care he or she needs according to his/her age, even though that adult can afford to give that care or is offered help to give that care.
o When a parent/caregiver is not providing a child with medical or mental health treatment or not giving prescribed medicines the child needs.
o Neglect also includes exposing a child to dangerous environments or having poor supervision for a child (such as putting the child in the care of someone incapable of caring for children).

Qualifications for Present Danger – SICO
-Significant
-Immediate
-Clearly Observable

6 Stages of Change
-Pre-Contemplation
-Contemplation
-Preparation
-Action
-Maintenance
-Relapse

SMART Criteria for Outcomes
-Specific
-Measurable
-Attainable
-Reasonable
-Timely

Core Conditions for Building Trust
-Genuineness
-Respect
-Empathy

Culture
The shared set of assumptions, values, and beliefs of a group of people by which they organize their common life

Cultural competence
A set of behaviors, attitudes, and skills that enable helping professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations

4 Stages of Interview
-Opening
-Information Collection
-Planning
-Closing

5 Safety Threshold Criteria (OOSIV)
-Out of Control
-Severity
-Imminence
-Observable
-Vulnerable

Legal definition of a family

• A group of individuals who share ties of blood, marriage or adoption;
• A group residing together and consisting of parents, children and other relatives by blood or marriage; or
• A group of individuals residing together who have consented to an arrangement similar to ties of blood or marriage.

Definition for household member: 65C-30.001(64)
-“Household Member” means any person who resides in a household, including the caregiver and other family members residing in the home
-Household members are any additional relatives or persons residing in the home, including but not limited to visitors expected to stay an indefinite length of time or college students expected to return to the home.

Six Protective Factors
-Nurturing and Attachment
-Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
-Parental Resilience
-Social Connections
-Concrete Supports
-Social and Emotional Competence of Children

Examples of CAREGIVER PROTECTIVE CAPACITIES
o Takes action
o Sets aside own needs
o Demonstrates adequate skills
o History of protecting
o Is self-aware
o Intellectually able/capable
o Understands threats to child
o Recognizes child needs
o Understands protective role
o Articulates plan to protect
o Able to meet own needs
o Resilient as a caregiver
o Tolerant as a caregiver
o Expresses love, empathy and sensitivity toward child
o Able to intervene to protect child
o Positively attached to child
o Aligned with child

3 basic concepts associated with understanding a family system

• Interactions
  o Describe how family members behave toward each other. Over time, family members learn what to expect and adjust their behaviors accordingly. Interactions can follow a healthy or an unhealthy pattern.
• Interdependence
  o Refers to patterns of interacting that occur repeatedly in a family. These patterns of behavior become ingrained, dependent on each other.
• Balance
  o Refers to the family patterns that family members have become used to. By finding a “balance,” families attempt to maintain their family system in a stable and predictable way, to keep things the same.

Family dynamics:
The patterns of relating, or interactions, between family members

Family culture
Set of beliefs about how things should be in the family. It covers such things as who is the head of household, who does what work around the house, and gender roles

Interdependent family
seen as a collective or unified model

Individualistic family
each person is seen as an individual, rather than a component of the group

Mental Health
The state of emotional and psychological well-being

Behavioral Health
Focuses on the holistic view of human behavior and the well-being of the body

Mental Illness
The medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning

Abandonment
A situation in which the parent(s) or legal custodian(s) of a child or, in the absence of a parent or legal custodian, the caregiver(s), while being able, makes no provision for the child’s support and has failed to establish or maintain a substantial and positive relationship with the child. “Establish or maintain a substantial and positive relationship” includes, but is not limited to, frequent and regular contact with the child through frequent and regular visitation or frequent and regular communication to or with the child, and through the exercise of parental rights and responsibilities.

Abuse
An willful act or threatened act that results in an physical, mental or sexual abuse injury or harm that causes or is likely to cause a child’s physical, mental or emotional health to be significantly impaired. Abuse of a child includes acts or omissions. Corporal discipline of a child by a parent or legal custodian for disciplinary purposes does not in itself constitute abuse when it does not result in harm to the child

Neglect
When a child is deprived of or is allowed to be deprived of necessary food, clothing, shelter or medical treatment, or a child is permitted to live in a n environment when such deprivation or environment causes the child’s physical, mental or emotional health to be significantly impaired or to be in danger of being significantly impaired

Findings – Verified
Is used when a preponderance of the credible evidence results in a determination the specific harm or threat of harm was the result of abuse, abandonment or neglect

Findings – Not Substantiated
Used when there is credible evidence which does not meet the standard of being a preponderance to support that the specific harm of threat of harm was the result of abuse, abandonment or neglect

Findings – No Indicator
Used when there is no credible evidence to support that the specific harm was the result of abuse, abandonment or neglect

4 Special Condition Cases

1. Caregiver Unavailable
2. Child on Child Sexual Abuse
3. Foster Care Referral
4. Parent Needs Assistance

What do you need to verify a case?
A PREPONDERENCE OF THE CREDIBLE EVIDENCE results in a determination that the specific harm or threat of harm was the result of abuse, abandonment or neglect of the credible evidence results in a determination that the specific harm or threat of harm was the result of abuse, abandonment or neglect

Preponderance of Evidence
The greater weight of the evidence, or more likely than not to have occurred

What is the purpose of the FFA?
Did the reported incident happen to the child and is the child living in a state of danger that requires our intervention.

What children/cases will be transferred to case management?
Only unsafe children that are in a state of danger will be transferred to case management.

According to Chapter 39 the CPI has X amount of days to gather all of the required information to asses that family and close their case?
60 Days according you Chapter 39 BUT DCF likes that case to be closed within 45

You will document IMPENDNG DANGER in your and in your .
Notes/FFA

EXTENT OF MALTREATMENT

• This domain is concerned with the maltreating behavior and immediate effects on a child. It considers what is occurring or has occurred and what the results are (e.g., hitting, injuries, lack of supervision, etc.).
• Information that this domain provides includes:
• Type of maltreatment;
• Severity of maltreatment;
• Description of specific events;
• Description of emotional and physical symptoms;
• Identification of the child and maltreating caregiver;
• Condition of the child.

NATURE OF THE MALTREATMENT: SURROUNDING CIRCUMSTANCES

• This domain is concerned with the nature of what accompanies or surrounds the maltreatment. It addresses what is going on at the time that the maltreatment occurs or occurred. It serves to qualify the maltreatment by placing it in a context or situation that l) precedes or leads up to the maltreatment or 2) exists while the maltreatment is occurring.
  -Information that this domain provides includes:
• The duration of the maltreatment;
• History of maltreatment;
• Patterns of functioning leading to or explaining the maltreatment;
• Parent/legal guardian or caregiver intent concerning the maltreatment;
• Parent/legal guardian or caregiver explanation for the maltreatment and family conditions;
• Unique aspects of the maltreatment, such as whether weapons were involved;
• Caregiver acknowledgement and attitude about the maltreatment and;
• Other problems occurring in association with the maltreatment.

CHILD FUNCTIONING
-This domain is concerned with the child’s general behavior, emotions, temperament, and physical capacity. It addresses how a child is from day to day, rather than focusing on a point in time (i.e.,, CPI contact, time of maltreatment event).
-Information in this domain includes:

• General mood and temperament;
• Intellectual functioning;
• Communication and social skills;
• Expressions of emotions/feelings;
• Behavior;
• Peer relations;
• School performance;
• Independence;
• Motor skills;
• Physical and mental health;
• Functioning within cultural norms.

ADULT FUNCTIONING
-This information domain has strictly to do with how adults (the caregivers) in a family household are functioning. This question is concerned with how the adults (parents/legal guardians or caregivers) in the family household typically feel, think, and act on a daily basis.
-Information provided in this domain includes:

• Communication and social skills;
• Coping and stress management;
• Self-control;
• Problem solving;
• Judgment and decision making;
• Independence;
• Home and financial management;
• Employment;
• Citizenship and community involvement;
• Rationality;
• Self-care and self-preservation;
• Substance use;
• Mental health;
• Family and/or domestic violence;
• Physical health and capacity; and
• Functioning within cultural norms.

GENERAL PARENTING
-This domain explores the general nature and approach to parenting which forms the basis for understanding caregiver-child interaction in more substantive ways. When considering this information element, it is important to keep distinctively centered on the overall parenting that is occurring and not allow any maltreatment incident or discipline to shade your study.
-Information provided in this domain includes:

• Reasons for being a caregiver;
• Satisfaction in being a caregiver;
• Parent/legal guardian or caregiver knowledge and skill in parenting and child development;
• Parent/legal guardian or caregiver expectations and empathy for a child;
• Decision making in parenting practices;
• Parenting style;
• History of parenting behavior;
• Cultural practices; and
• Protectiveness.

DISCIPLINE OR BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT
-Discipline is considered in a broader context than socialization; teaching and guiding the child. Usually, staff focuses on discipline only within a punishment context, so emphasis on the importance of viewing discipline as providing direction, managing behavior, teaching, and directing a child are considered in answering this question.
-Information provided in this domain includes:

• Disciplinary methods;
• Perception of effectiveness of utilized approaches;
• Concepts and purpose of discipline;
• Context in which discipline occurs; and
• Cultural practices.

All _ factors are factors but not all factors are _ factors.
All safety factors are risk factors but not all risk factors are safety factors

Safety Assessment identifies? (3 things)

• Danger threat
• Child Vulnerability
• Diminished protective capacity

The Safety Formula
Danger threat(s) +/- vulnerable child +/- caregiver protective capacities = safe or unsafe

What is a safe child?
Care givers protective capacities control existing threats and the child is not in any present danger or impending danger

Safety Plan – on – going and active throughout the life of the case

1. Intensive
2. Voluntary
3. Short-term
4. Immediate

When is the FFA due?
-14 days when present danger has been identified
-No timeframe if there is no present danger

When is PDA done?
Immediately/within 48 hours

When is Risk Assessment due?
Prior to closing the investigation

When can services be rendered?
After at risk assessment is completed

Case notes must be entered within_________.
48 hours

__ hours notice for all legal hearings, proceedings and documents
72 hours

Initial health assessment done by CTP within _ hours of removal
72 hours

Children in out-of-home care needs to be photographed within __ hours after placement
72 hours

Once in shelter status, the child needs to be seen once every __ days
7 days

Once a dependency is established, the child needs to be seen once every __ days
30 days

Case plan __ days from removal
60 days

Mandatory CPT

1. Child of any age with injuries on the head or neck, burns or fractures
2. Child 5 years or younger injuries
3. Sexual abuse with alleged or allegation (stated as fact) of penetration
4. Sexually transmitted disease of a prepubescent child
5. Medical neglect
6. Serious emotional problems
7. In home sibling of child or children who have been pronounced as dead as a result of abuse, abandonment or neglect

Case needs to be commenced within _ hours unless it is immediate then case should be commenced within hours but no more than _ hours
24 hours, 2 hours, 4 hours

Order of Interview:

1. Child Victim(s)
2. Siblings or other children in the household
3. Non-offending caregiver or parent
4. Alleged caregiver or parent
5. Collateral contacts that are likely to provide credible evidence or critical information

5 Steps of the Interview

1. Preparation
2. Engagement
3. Interview
4. Closure
5. Document

Placement Priority

1. Non-Custodial caregiver
2. Relative
3. Non relative
4. Licensing/Foster/Home
5. Medical Foster Home
6. Residential Group Home
7. Treatment Facility

Words that describe present danger
Situational and Occurring

Words that describe impending danger
Pervasive state of danger

Risk
Likelihood of future maltreatment

4 Cornerstones of Safety Intervention

1. Least Intrusive
2. Mutuality
3. Diligence
4. Self determination

Referrals for further assessment to determine services should be designed to _.
Enhance diminished caregivers protective capacities

One of CPT’s responsibility is to _.
Supplement the investigative assessment process

3 Types of Investigations

1. In-home
2. Other
3. Institutional

What is the definition of a safe child?

• There are no impending danger threats to the child
• The caregivers’ protective capacities control existing threats

What is the purpose of a safety plan?
Control for danger

In which information domain do we describe the caregivers’ explanation of how the child was injured?
Surrounding circumstances of the maltreatment

Which domain does the following information belong:
Gina gets angry at her one year old daughter, Brandi, for wetting the bed. Gina says Brandi has been potty trained since she was less than 9 months old and “she knows better”
Parenting General

Caregiver protective capacities are:
Personal and parenting behaviors, cognitive and emotional characteristics that specifically and directly associate with protecting one’s children

Sufficient information:

• Gives us a full picture
• Is relevant to the particular information domain to most accurately inform the safety determination

Risk of maltreatment means:
Likelihood of future maltreatment when compared with other families with similar characteristics

The focus of the FFA is?
The household where alleged maltreatment has occurred

There are _ danger threats
11

This danger threat requires that you obtain supervisory approval prior to identifying:
Other

This danger threat is primarily only used at present danger and rarely should be considered or impending danger:
Child has serious illness or injury (indicative of child abuse) that is unexplained, or explanations are inconsistent with the illness or injury

Assessing is and ___
Continual and Dynamic

True of false – Present danger can occur a any time
True

4 Ages and Stages of child development are:

• Birth to 3
• Pre-school
• School Age
• Adolescence

3 Developmental domains for children are:

• Cognitive
• Physical
• Social-Emotional

What are the legislative goals for dependent children?
Safety, permanence and well-being

What is the requirement of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act?
Mandates agencies to demonstrate reasonable efforts prior to removing a child.

Clear and convincing evidence is needed for:
TPR

Preponderance of evidence is needed for:
Adjudicatory hearing/dependency

Probable cause:
Shelter Petition – The judge has enough evidence to create the belief that significant impairment to the child’s safety may occur if the child is left in the home

What tool provides a description of and factors to consider for each specific maltreatment?
Child maltreatment index

Which is NOT a Special Condition Referral?

• Human Trafficking
• Caregiver unavailable
• Foster care referral
• Child on child sexual abuse
  Human Trafficking

According to the administrative code, a specific type of injury or harm to a child is a/an
Maltreatment

Stages in the cycle of domestic violence:
Incident, Tension building, Reconciliation and Calm

True or False:
Domestic Violence and Family Violence are the same thing
False

3 Types of Reports

1. In-home
2. Institutional
3. Other

True or False:
Unsafe in-home cases involving domestic violence requires 2 safety plans
True

“Tell me about the times he is able to be patient” This is an example of what type of questions?
Open and exception finding questions

True or False:
An interview goes from general to specific topics
True

What is the best way to begin discussion about a highly sensitive topics?
Use indirect questions

With pre-school aged children asking questions that relate to __ are inappropriate due to their level of understanding.
Time

Cultural sensitivity means:
Be aware of cultural differences within family dynamics

Family dynamics are:

• Patterns of relating
• Interactions between family members

Developmental disability is:
Cognitive, severe and chronic

People with limited cognitive functioning (children) are more reliant on:
Concrete and literal thinking

The health and safety of the children served by our agencies are of
paramount concern

Safety services are used to:
control danger threats

Once you identify danger threats you and ___
Consult with your supervisor and create a safety plan

Chapter 39 protects children from (4)

1. Exploitation
2. Abuse
3. Neglect
4. Abandonment

When removing a child should you allow them to say goodbye to their parents? Should you ask the parents to help pack a bag and get the children ready?
Yes, yes

Adjudicatory hearing determines:
If the child has been abused, abandoned or neglected

What hearing addresses if parents are guilty of abuse?
Arraignment

A good Present Danger Plan:
Protects the child

Engagement skills includes all except:
a. Display empathy and encouragement
b. Enlist family to participate in the development of safety plans
c. Ensure that every participant have clear roles and responsibilities
d. Elicit family priorities and basic needs
c. Ensure that every participant have clear roles and responsibilities

Satisfaction in being a caregiver is part of what domain:
General Parenting

Caregiver attitude about maltreatment is part of what domain:
Surrounding circumstances

Condition of the child belongs to what domain:
a. Child functioning
b. Discipline/behavior management
c. General Parenting
d. Surrounding circumstances
e. None of the above
None of the above

Impending Danger is documented in the:
Notes and FFA

Summary of all priors is documented in:
Nature of maltreatment (surrounding circumstances)

After completing the FFA; if the child status is Safe you can
a. Close the case
b. Refer family to Diversion (community services) if necessary
c. Do a preventive Safety plan
d. A and B are correct
A and B are correct

Crisis Intervention Services are to be provided:
As part of the impending danger plan

Treatment Services are provided when:
The case goes to Case Management Org.

48. Essential skill: Assessment and Understanding includes:
    a. Learn about the cultural influences
    b. Making sure we understand the reason for the abuse
    c. Identify resources
    d. The use of active listening
    Learn about the cultural influences

Contact LE prior to commencement when:
Allegations are confirmed criminal

On child on child reports is more important to determine:
a. Where the offender learn the behavior
b. If the parents believe the abuse
c. If the children go to the same school
d. Victim vulnerability
Victim vulnerability

The hearing where parents can offer testimony is:
Adjudicatory

One responsibility of the CPI is to
a. Investigate supplemental reports to the hotline
b. Document the findings of the investigation in the FFA
c. Determine what service the family needs
d. Do an on-going FFA before closing the investigation
Document the findings of the investigation in the FFA

Standards of Proof in the dependency courts are: (3)
Probable cause, preponderance of the evidence and clear and convincing

Types of Petitions that can be filed in court are: (3)
Dependency, TPR, Shelter

What information CLS needs regarding possible witness:
Name, type of testimony the can provide

Which of the following is at the BOTTOM of the legal hierarchy?
a. Administrative rules
b. Federal statutes
c. Operating procedures
d. State statutes
Operating procedures

64 Which of the following explains the purposes and requirements for juvenile court hearings?
a. Juvenile administrative codes
b. Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure
c. Operating procedures for juveniles
d. State statutes
Florida Rules of Juvenile Procedure

Petitions are of paramount importance in dependency cases because:
States the allegations of abuse, neglect, abandonment

Evidence is :
Anything that helps prove or disprove the allegations

68. When in shelter status the child must be seen once every______ _.
    7 days

Before releasing reporter’s name we need:
written permission from the reporter

73. The court relies upon the Judicial Review Social Summary Report to explain:
    the degree of progress made toward the permanency goal.

Gather, document, assess, and make decision are steps in which of the following processes? (GDAM)
Decision Making

A crucial requirement for eligibility in the relative caregiver program is that the child:
Has been ruled dependent.

The caller ID for the reporter can be use when:

• child is a caller
• self-reporting.
• if the family location is unknown

Dependency cases are handled in the
Juvenile Court

The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) determines:
Which State/County has jurisdiction

If the child is removed who has priority when placing the child:
The non-custodial parent

A child health check must be completed within how many hours of removal:
72 hours

The section of the abuse report that describes the alleged maltreatment is
Allegation narrative

Allegations of inadequate supervision and drug expose child: parents are selling drugs from the home leaving the children exposed to strangers coming and going. The mother’s paramour is a convicted child molester. What is the biggest threat to the pre-school children?
a. The mother keeps changing paramours
b. The strangers coming to the house to buy drugs
c. A convicted child molester with access to the children
d. The drug infested neighborhood
A convicted child molester with access to the children

Prior to placement of a child in a non-licensed setting, the counselor MUST:
Complete a local, state, and abuse record check on all household members and frequent visitors.

Which practice by a staffing facilitator would most DISCOURAGE open communication:
A cutting off all comments by the extended family.
B cutting off venting and emotional outbursts.
C maintaining his/her objectivity .
D redirecting the flow to keep on task.
cutting off all comments by the extended family.

When placing children, which statement from is TRUE according to the multi-ethic placement?
A. Race may be determining factor for placement
B. Multi-ethic placements are mandated
C. Foster parents may not be denied based on race
D. Children may not be placed ore than twice
Foster parents may not be denied based on race

When identifying specific threats to child safety, what must be described in the Present Danger Assessment?
Immediate safety plan actions to implement

Present Danger Safety plan should involve which individuals?
CPI, Family, Service professionals, as appropriate and available

When you interview an alleged offender, she says that she never wanted t be a parent and she expresses that her child, age eight, should be able to take care of himself. This information is useful because
Informs you of some general parenting considerations

Which statement is a good example of case documentation?
A. Child appeared bonded o the mother in a positive way
B. Child came in from the backyard, smiled and sat in the mothers lap
C. The minor child was a good boy
D. The mother did not seem to know how to discipline the child
Child came in from the backyard, smiled and sat in the mothers lap

Investigations seek to obtain…
Evidence to refute or support the alleged maltreatment

In order to determine whether or not legal sufficiency exists and a dependency petition needs to filed, the PI should consult with…
CLS

ty requests early filing of the dependency petition, the PI has how many days to file the petition?
7 days

The parent states that when was young her mom uses a switch to discipline her and she believe that ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’ is how she is going to discipline. This statement falls into which domain?
Parent Discipline

When present danger is identified during the initial visit with the family, the PI must
Establish ways the child may be protected immediately

Sufficient when considering safety plans refer to
Well-thought out approach, containing the most suitable people taking the necessary actions, frequently enough to control danger threats

True or False
Case plans are safety plans
False

The primary purpose of a safety plan is to?
Control for danger, either present or impending

Conditions for return are
Only developed when the safety plan is an out of the home safety plan
Written statement that identifies specific circumstances that must exist within a child’s home to Implement an in home safety plan

Safety Services refers to what types of services:
Services specific to supporting and executing the safety plan

Developing a sufficient safety plan at impending danger requires:
A full understanding of how the impending danger threats are occurring within the home

Which is not part of Florida Service Array
Adult functioning services

Change management and safety management have the following in common:
They both deal in some way with caregiver protective capacities

Which is not a safety category?
Child Care

True or False
Reunifying a child with his family is based on caregivers meeting case plan outcomes
False

The key to successfully engaging a family for services is to
Involve the family in identifying services

What is the minimum level of credible evidence needed to verify a maltreatment
51%

Direct Evidence
Eye Witness

Indirect Evidence
Someone heard it and heard about it

Demonstrative
Pictures, reports, evaluations

Experts
Law enforcement, CPT, Doctors, and therapist