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CERAP Exam
What are the three DCFS outcomes for children? - Answer-Safety, well-being, and permanency. 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 Which of the deadly sins most commonly lead to fatal abuse? - Answer-Colic and toilet training resistance. Definition of abuse - Answer-Something that is being done TO the child. Definition of neglect - Answer-Something that is NOT being done to the child that they need.
Definition of cultural competence - Answer-The totality of learned behaviors. 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 What does CERAP stand for? - Answer-Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol. 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. What are the four steps to protecting children? - Answer-1. Information gathering
- Information analysis
- Drawings conclusions
- Making decisions What are the contents of the protocol? - Answer-1. Safety determination form (safety assessment)
- Safety plan
- Practice guidelines
What is risk concerned with? - Answer-The full range of severity of harm (low to severe). 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. What would the intervention be if you were worried about risk? - Answer-Risk resolves or reduces the problems that lead to risk. When must safety be assessed? - Answer-Quickly, often in one visit. When must risk be assessed? - Answer-Over a longer period of time, allowing time to gather, assess, and evaluate information. 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 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
What four things should you consider when you are referring to the 16 safety threats? - Answer-- Child vulnerability
- Severity of behavior/condition
- History
- Safety threat identification Who is the CERAP intended for? - Answer-It is a familial assessment only. What must any child safety threats identified through CERAP be incorporated into? - Answer-The SACWIS Family Service Plan. Define mitigation - Answer-Family strengths or action taken by caregivers on their own initiative that keeps children safe from identified safety threats When is a situation determined safe? - Answer-If no safety threats are marked OR if safety threats can be mitigated. When is a situation determined unsafe? - Answer-If safety threats marked cannot be addressed by family strengths or mitigated.
