DCP Team
Child Welfare History
Major Responsibilities and Decisions
Child Protective Specialist
Notable Individuals
100
Name the unit that covers investigations when the borough office is closed?
What is the Emergency Children's Services?
100
What year did New York City create ACS?
What is 1996
100
The likelihood that a child would be abused or maltreated?
What is Risk?
100
Computerized records are kept on this system by CPS workers
What is Connections?
100
Who is the commissioner of ACS?
Who is David Hansell
200
Name of unit that investigates reports on foster homes, child protective specialist, and child care centers?
What is the Office of Special Investigation
200
What year was the Children's Aid Society founded in New York City ?
What is 1853
200
When there is no immediate or impending danger
What is Safety?
200
Sources such as the neighbors and the super of the building that are interviewed fall into this category
What is collateral contacts?
200
The Social Security Act of 1935 was a provision of the New Deal which was created by this president
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
300
CPS workers are places in this unit to assist families that are in the shelter system.
What is Preventive Assistance Temporary Housing
300
The federal government passed this legislation to preserve the integrity of a certain groups families and culture?
What is The Indian Child Welfare Act
300
This report is submitted to CPS workers after a source alleges that a child may be abused or maltreated
What is SCR report?
300
This assessment must be completed within 7 days
What is the Safety Assessment
300
The death of this child exposed the flaws within the ACS system and helped to establish the Select Committee on Child Abuse in New York
Who is Roxanne Felumero
400
CPS workers are assigned cases from this unit
What is the Application Unit
400
What piece of legislation was created avoid foster care placement and to emphasize on preventive services?
What is the New York State Child Welfare Reform Act of 1979?
400
A substantial risk that may cause physical injury to a child by mean other than accidental
What is Abuse/ Maltreatment
400
"If you don't write it down, it didn't happen" refers to what?
What is Documentation?
400
This child was beaten to death by her mother Awilda Lopez, who was a drug addict. This child death was one of many incidents that helped expose NYC to a crisis and lead to the creation of ACS.
Who is Elisa Izquierdo
500
These specialist assist CPS workers with medical, mental health, domestic violence, and/ or substance abuse conditions
What is Clinical Consultants
500
This law served as a model for mandated reporting on a national scale
What is the Child Protective Services Act of 1973
500
CPS workers use this method to identify the risk factors, the safety conditions, and/ or the existence of injury
What is Investigation?
500
Frontline CPS workers belong to this unit
What is Protective Diagnostic Unit?
500
This child was only 7 years old when she was abused and murder in Brooklyn, NY. This death lead to many reforms in ACS.
Who is Nixzmary Brown
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