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CERAP Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol correct answers Structured approach to decision-making designed to guide support and document professional judgement in situations in which children are potentially in danger immediately or in the very near future. A CERAP is used through the life of a case; always. Focus only on the information which you are given. correct answers Do not read, assume, or attribute evidence to other "ifs" of the situation. Key information related to Safety Threat Assessment: correct answers Child vulnerability Severity of the Behavior/Condition History Safety Threat Identification If a scenario is a safety concern: correct answers all of the threat answers will be either safety concern or no concern If a scenario is a risk concern: correct answers all of the threat answers will be either risk concern or no concern. If any one of the individual threats is present in the scenario: correct answers you would mark that group as a Safety or Risk Concern. If none of the individual threats are present in the scenario: correct answers We would mark that group No Concern Physical Abuse/Neglect/Threat: correct answers This section contains five safety threats related to causing moderate to severe harm or threatening harm. History of abuse neglect (physical or sexual) correct answers This section has only one safety threat associated with past history of abuse and/or neglect. This does not include only indicated reports. It does include the anecdotal accounts too. Caretaker Behaviors: correct answers This section combines threats that relate to the behavior of the caretaker. Remember the definition of the caretaker-- anyone who influences the safety of the child. Special issues: correct answers Is where we combine sexual abuse and the underlying issues we have been discussing (ie. developmental disability, poverty, neglect) Human trafficking: correct answers This section has only one safety threat related to forced labor or sexual exploitation that causes moderate to severe or threatening harm.
Safety assessment goals: correct answers -Determine if there is (or is not) a threat to the child's safety. -Determine if the child is safe or unsafe -Use our critical thinking skills to analyze and apply the information we collect from the safety assessment process to the safety plan and interventions that will achieve child safety. We assess safety through the life of a case. Safety definition correct answers A child is considered to be safe when an assessment of available information supports the belief that a child is not in immediate (near future) danger of moderate to severe harm. Safety is a subset of risk: within risk there is safety. Risk definition correct answers Is the likelihood of any degree of linger-term future harm/maltreatment. It does not predict when the future harm might occur, but rather the likelihood of it happening at all. Moderate to severe harm: correct answers The threat of: -Danger to the child's life or health -Impairment to his or her physical or mental well-being -Disfigurement Immediacy: correct answers CFS 1441 correct answers 1441-A correct answers Requirements to when to conduct a safety determination: correct answers Requirements to when and how to construct a safety plan: correct answers Safety correct answers Time: now or in the very near future Degree of harm: moderate to severe Purpose of intervention: control Risk correct answers Time: longer term Degree of harm: low to severe Purpose of intervention: resolve or reduce Steps to Determining Safety correct answers Step 1: Identify relevant safety threats. Step 2: Describe the safety threat you checked, identifying perpetrator, child victims and source(s) of information. Step 3: Record family strengths and
7 Deadly Sins correct answers Colic Awakening at Night Separation Anxiety Normal Exploratory Behavior Normal Negativism Normal Poor Appetite Toilet Training Resistance If the child is unsafe we: correct answers 1) A safety plan needs to be put in place
Safety Plan correct answers Voluntary, temporary, short-term plan designed to control serious and immediate threats to children's safety as a result of an unsafe finding on the CERAP.-Safety Plans can take a variety of forms and are developed with the input and voluntary consent of the children's legal caregivers and other family members-Safety plans are typically short term environmental manipulations to ensure child safety; they are not interventions designed to change behaviors over the long term When Are Safety Plans Not Completed correct answers During investigations of foster homes, residential facilities, schools or day care facilities Unsafe correct answers After considering all reasonably available information/evidence concerning the presence of each of the 16 potential safety threats, and taking into account the vulnerability of the child, and considering the caregiver(s)'s displayed ability/action to mitigate any identified threats, it is determined that a child in a household or in custodial care is likely to be moderately or severely harmed immediately or in the near future. In the Event A Child is Considered Unsafe, What Must Be Done? correct answers A safety plan or protective custody must be implemented by the worker completing the CERAP, and approved by the supervisor Purpose of Intervention (Risk and Safety) correct answers Safety: Control the situation to prevent harm from occurring in the short term Risk: Resolve or Reduce the problems that lead to the risk How Must Safety Be Assessed? correct answers Quickly, often in one visit How must risk be assessed? correct answers Over a longer period of time, allowing time to gather, assess, and evaluate information Who is included in the CERAP safety asssessment correct answers All alleged child victims must be seen and, if verbal, interviewed out of the presence of the caregiver and alleged perpetrator Factors that can influence a child's vulnerability correct answers -Younger children who lack good verbal skills, in particular, non-verbal children -Children affected by developmental disabilities/deficits -Children who have serious medical problems -Children who exhibit psychological, emotional, or behavioral problems Safety Threat Assessment- Severity of the Behavior/Condition correct answers -Severity of a safety threat must be considered within the context of the other safety threat criteria -Severity may refer to the degree or extent of an alleged maltreatment incident -Severity is concerned with the degree of potential for harm given the behavior
-However, when failure to thrive is diagnosed and no underlying disease or physical condition can be detected, lack of growth is non-organic and psycho-social in nature, meaning it is due to neglect Safety Neglect (subtype of neglect) correct answers When the parent or caregiver neglects important safety issues Abandonment (subtype of neglect) correct answers A child is abandoned when a parent intends to permanently leave a child Maternal Substance Abuse (subtype of neglect) correct answers A pregnant woman who abuses substances while pregnant passes the substance via the bloodstream to her unborn child. A baby who is born with drugs in his/her system is considered to be neglected