Child Protective Services
Child Protective Services (CPS) has often been criticized for
What is neglect, a lack of transparency, subjectivity, racism, classism, and unnecessary family seperations (any of these are accepted answers)?
The primary goal of foster care is
What is family reunification?
Trans-cultural adoption is a particularly large concern for these groups of Americans
What is black and native americans?
Head Start primarily serves this age group
What is pre-kindergarten (3 to 5 year olds)?
This block grant program created in 1996 provides cash payments to needy families
What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)?
VOCAL was formed to restore traditional parental rights in the face of perceived state intrustion. VOCAL stands for
Victims of Child Abuse Laws
More than half of children in foster care where placed there by this agency
What is Child Protective Services (CPS)?
Approximately 90% of subsidized adoptions involve these caregivers adopting children already in their care.
Who are foster parents?
The Head Start program is overseen by this federal department
What is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)?
Before modern foster care and adoption programs, children were often placed with families who received payment to care for them through this practice
What is boarding out?
In a parody of street slang, DYFS child welfare workers came to refer to the rush to eliminate cases as
What is drive-by closings?
Following the 1970s, quality foster placements became more scarce because of this societal trend
What is the transition of women into the workforce?
Older children, children with disabilities, and children from minority backgrounds were often classified using this term
What are "hard to adopt" children?
The Trump administration closed this percentage of the country's regional Head Start Offices in April 2025
What is one half (1/2)?
U.S. child welfare policy in its current form has its origins in this decade
What is the 1870s?
Initially demonstrated in the late 1970s, this policy called for the provision of intensive services for a brief period, usually six weeks. Services were intended to stabilize the family.
What is family preservation?
This scoring system measures the complexity of a foster child's situation. The higher the number the more support they require
What is a Child and Adolescent Needs Score (CAN Score)?
Passed in 1978, this federal law aimed to preserve Native American children's cultural identities by protecting their connections to their families and tribes during adoption
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act?
The Head Start Program was launched as part of this sweeping domestic reform agenda
What is the Great Society?
The two primary concerns of the U.S. Children's Bureau were
What is child labor and maternal and infant mortality?
The Child Abuse and Treatment Act of 1974 established this center within the Department of Health and Human Services
What is the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN)?
This process, made central to foster care policy by a 1980 federal law, aims to ensure that children find stable, long-term family arrangements rather than remain in temporary foster care
What is permanency planning?
This 1980 federal law provided financial subsidies to adoptive parents to encourage adoption of children with special needs
What is the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980?
Head Start was incorporated in the Economic Opportunity Act of this year
What is 1964 (also accept 1965 the year it was launched)?
The PRWORA Act passed in 1996 stands for
What is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act?