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CERAP CHILD ENDANGERMENT
RISK ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL
STUDY GUIDE 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
โ What are the seven deadly sins? Answer: 1. Colic
- Awakening at night
- Separation anxiety
- Normal exploratory behavior
- Normal negativism
- Normal poor appetite
- Toilet training resistance โ Which of the deadly sins most commonly lead to fatal abuse? Answer: Colic and toilet training resistance. โ Definition of abuse Answer: Something that is being done TO the child. โ Definition of neglect Answer: Something that is NOT being done to the child that they need.
โ Definition of cultural competence Answer: The totality of learned behaviors. โ When are the times you would complete a Home Safety Checklist? Answer: 1. Within 30 days of case opening
- Prior to a major change of life circumstance
- Every 90 days during the life of the case
- When a family with an open service case is the subject of subsequent child abuse or neglect investigation
- Within 5 calendar days of a supervisory approved case closure conjunction with the final CERAP โ What does CERAP stand for? Answer: Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol. โ What is the CERAP? Answer: 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. โ What are the four steps to protecting children? Answer: 1. Information gathering
- Information analysis
- Drawings conclusions
- Making decisions
โ Define risk Answer: The likelihood of any degree of longer term future harm/maltreatment, it does not predict when the future harm might occur, but rather the likelihood of it happening at all. โ What is a subset of risk? Answer: Safety. All threats applied to safety are going to apply to risk, but all threats applied to risk will not apply to safety. โ What makes a family always have risk? Answer: DCFS involvement. โ Is safety or risk referring to possible harm now or in the very near future? Answer: Safety. โ Is safety or risk referring to possible harm in the longer-term? Answer: Risk. โ What is safety concerned with? Answer: The potential for moderate to severe harm. โ What is risk concerned with? Answer: The full range of severity of harm (low to severe). โ What would the intervention be if you were worried about safety? Answer: Safety controls the situation to prevent harm from occurring in the short term.
โ What would the intervention be if you were worried about risk? Answer: Risk resolves or reduces the problems that lead to risk. โ When must safety be assessed? Answer: Quickly, often in one visit. โ When must risk be assessed? Answer: Over a longer period of time, allowing time to gather, assess, and evaluate information. โ When should I complete the CERAP? Answer: - Within 5 working days after initial case assignment and upon any an all subsequent transfers
- Every 90 calendar days from the case opening date
- Whenever evidence or circumstances suggest that a child's safety may be in jeopardy
- Every 5 working days following the determination that any child is unsafe and a safety plan is implemented
- Within 5 calendar days of a supervisory approved case closure โ What are the four steps to determining safety? Answer: 1. Identify relevant safety threats
- Describe the safety threat you checked
- Record family strengths and mitigate circumstances
- Make safety decision
