Illinois CWEL Study Guide Latest Update -

Illinois CWEL Study Guide Latest Update - 270 Questions and 100% Correct Answers Guaranteed A+

3 E's of Trauma - CORRECT ANSWER: Event, Experience, and Effect

4 Pathways to Permanency - CORRECT ANSWER: Family preservation, family

reunification, concurrent planning, and expedited termination

60-Plus Process - CORRECT ANSWER: Recognizes the importance of designating a

back-up caregiver and ensuring that the back-up is fully informed about the child

Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act - CORRECT ANSWER: Allows and infant no

more than 30 days old to be relinquished to a hospital, police station, or emergency medical facility without question or consequence to the parent

Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act (ANCRA) - CORRECT ANSWER: Requires

the Department to receive reports of abused and neglected children, to investigate these reports, and to provide services necessary to prevent further harm to children

Abused Children - CORRECT ANSWER: Minors under age eighteen who are being

harmed by any person responsible for their welfare, including a parent, family member, any person who resides in the home, a boyfriend or girlfriend of the parent, a babysitter, or day care provider

ACES - CORRECT ANSWER: Adverse Childhood Experiences

Action Teams - CORRECT ANSWER: Child welfare professionals and community

members who educate the community as to how and why children enter the child welfare system

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Adjudicatory Hearings - CORRECT ANSWER: Hearings wherein the judge decides if

the evidence presented shows that the child was abused, neglected, or is dependent.

Administrative Case Review (ACR) - CORRECT ANSWER: Assists workers,

supervisors, and families in recognzing practical case objectives, reviewing implementation of service plans, documenting family progress, and planning permanency for children

Administrative Case Review (ACR) - CORRECT ANSWER: Required for placement

cases every six months by DCFS policy. Discusses whether there has been progress toward achieving the outcomes defined in the prior service plan, whether there are barriers that have prevented the achievement of the outcomes and how those barriers can be reduced, whether the services are appropriate, whether the permanency goal has been achieved, what objectives should be established for the next six months, and what alternative plans should be considered if the family has not complied with the service plan

Adoption Act - CORRECT ANSWER: Specifies the grounds for parental unfitness and

procedures governing adoption of children

Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) - CORRECT ANSWER: A federal statute that

requires states to take specific placement action on behalf of children in foster care, such as terminating parental rights in order to facilitate adoption after a designated period of time trying to reunite the child with its biological parents.

Adoption Caseworker - CORRECT ANSWER: Assist children in becoming a legal

member of an adoptive family when efforts to unite children with their parents are not successful

Adoption Hearing - CORRECT ANSWER: The Court grants legal custody of the minor

child to his/her adoptive parents

Adult Guardianship - CORRECT ANSWER: Transitions youth age 17 1/2 and older with developmental disabilities to DHS funded adult living arrangements

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Aristotle P V. McDonald - CORRECT ANSWER: Requires DCFS to make a diligent

search to locate joint placement for siblings, as well as place siblings together, unless there are certain exceptions

Assumptions - CORRECT ANSWER: Ideas, beliefs, predictions, suspicions, and

inferences about various aspects of life, e.g. experience, people, religion, politics, justice, etc.

Attachment - CORRECT ANSWER: Occurs as a result of children expressing their

needs and mothers or primary caregivers satisfying the children's needs each time they are expressed

Attachment Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER: Occurs when children's normal processes

of attachment have been disrupted. Children may become severely withdrawn and depressed, or they may be very destructive and aggressive

Back-Up Planning - CORRECT ANSWER: The plan the caregiver (and extended family)

have developed for ongoing care for the child if the time comes when the older caregiver can no longer care for the child

Bates V. McDonald - CORRECT ANSWER: Requires DCFS to provide weekly parent-

child visits for children in substitute care with a "return home" goal

Beliefs - CORRECT ANSWER: The convictions, expectations, faith, hopes, and

assurances people have about various aspects of life

BH V. McDonald - CORRECT ANSWER: Requires DCFS to protect children in custody

from foreseeable and preventable harm, provide minimally adequate health care including mental health care, and provide minimally adequate training, education, and services to enable children to secure their own safety

Bias - CORRECT ANSWER: Preconceived judgment or opinion; an adverse opinion or

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Bonding - CORRECT ANSWER: The initial tie that develops between newborn babies

and their mothers

Borderline Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER: Characterized by impulsivity

and instability in mood, self-image, and personal relationships

Burgos V. Suter - CORRECT ANSWER: Requires DCFS to provide services in Spanish

for Spanish-speaking clients

Case Handoff - CORRECT ANSWER: The DCFS investigator gives the case

information to the placement worker and their supervisor

Case Law - CORRECT ANSWER: Based on court decisions and interpretations

Case Transfer Staffing - CORRECT ANSWER: The Child Protection Specialist

supervisor must hand off the case to the intact or placement supervisor and transition the case with family members

Change Agents - CORRECT ANSWER: Begin intervention by establishing a relationship with the family so that families may change their behavior and learn healthier patterns of relating to each other and more appropriate discipline techniques

Child Abuse and Neglect Tracking System (CANTS) - CORRECT ANSWER: Prior

history of reports of abuse or neglect in Illinois

Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) - CORRECT ANSWER: A tool for

assessing risk that: gathers information about the child, assesses the need and level of intervention needed for treatment, enables communication about needs and strengths of clients, provides us with information needed to make trauma-informed decisions, and provides us with the data needed to document the impact of our decisions

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