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What are the three DCFS outcomes for children? - correct answer ✅Safety, well-being, and permanency. What are the seven deadly sins? - correct 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? - correct answer ✅Colic and toilet training resistance. Definition of abuse - correct answer ✅Something that is being done TO the child. Definition of neglect - correct answer ✅Something that is NOT being done to the child that they need.
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Definition of cultural competence - correct answer ✅The totality of learned behaviors. When are the times you would complete a Home Safety Checklist? - correct 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? - correct answer ✅Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol. What is the CERAP? - correct 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? - correct answer ✅1. Information gathering
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care is likely to be moderately to severely harmed immediately or in the near future What would be the result of determining a child is unsafe? - correct answer ✅Either create a safety plan or have protective custody taken depending on the situation. Define immediately or in the near future - correct answer ✅Between now and the next time you see the family. Define risk - correct 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. What is a subset of risk? - correct answer ✅Safety. All threats applied to safety are going to apply to risk, but all threats applied to risk will not apply to safety. What makes a family always have risk? - correct answer ✅DCFS involvement.
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Is safety or risk referring to possible harm now or in the very near future? - correct answer ✅Safety. Is safety or risk referring to possible harm in the longer-term? - correct answer ✅Risk. What is safety concerned with? - correct answer ✅The potential for moderate to severe harm. What is risk concerned with? - correct answer ✅The full range of severity of harm (low to severe). What would the intervention be if you were worried about safety? - correct 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? - correct answer ✅Risk resolves or reduces the problems that lead to risk. When must safety be assessed? - correct answer ✅Quickly, often in one visit.
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What four things should you consider when you are referring to the 16 safety threats? - correct answer ✅- Child vulnerability
- Severity of behavior/condition
- History
- Safety threat identification Who is the CERAP intended for? - correct answer ✅It is a familial assessment only. What must any child safety threats identified through CERAP be incorporated into? - correct answer ✅The SACWIS Family Service Plan. Define mitigation - correct 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? - correct answer ✅If no safety threats are marked OR if safety threats can be mitigated.
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When is a situation determined unsafe? - correct answer ✅If safety threats marked cannot be addressed by family strengths or mitigated.
