Legal
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)?
Allows the tribe to have control over the case or be permitted to intervene in the court case. The tribe could take jurisdiction over the case.
What is a willful act or threatened act that results in any physical, mental, or sexual abuse, injury or harm.
Abuse
What is the present danger criteria?
Significant
Immediate
Clearly Observable
Actively occurring
What does ACES stand for?
Adverse Childhood Experience Study
Who codes the initial maltreatment in all intakes?
Hotline
True or False, the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children(ICPC), is used to establish placement for all out of state placement.
True
What are the four Special Conditions Referrals?
Caregiver unavailable, Child on Child sexual abuse, Foster Care Referral, and Parent Needs Assistance.
How often do you monitor a safety plan?
A hearing in which the court determines the most appropriate protections, services, and placement for the child in dependency cases.
What is a child on child sexual abuse report?
Any sexual behavior by a child to another child which occurs without consent, without equality, or as a result of coercion.
What goal was the focus of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980?
Review and revise permanency goals every six months, and address the foster care drift.
What is the difference between household violence threatens child and intimate partner violence threatens?
Intimate Partner Violence Threatens Child must one person uses to establish power and control over an intimate partner in order to control that partner’s actions and activities.
How long is a Present Danger Safety Plan good for?
14 days.
What are the three standards of proof for judicial involvement?
probable cause, preponderance of evidence and clear and convincing
What is neglect?
When a child is deprived of, or is allowed to be deprived of, necessary food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment or a child is permitted to live in an environment when such deprivation or environment causes the child's physical, mental, or emotional health to be significantly impaired or to be in danger of being significantly impaired.
What are the four types of evidence?
Direct, Circumstantial, Demonstrative, and Expert Testimony.
What is the definition for harm?
Inflicts or allows to be inflicted upon the child physical, mental, or emotional injury.
Danger threat, vulnerable child, and diminished protective capacities.
"Tell me about a time before drugs" is an example what type of question?
Exception-finding
For children who are in state custody, what record follows that child everywhere?
Child Resource Record
To whom can reporter information be released to? (Name all)
Hotline, CPI, CLS, SAO, CPT, LE
What is a Safety Plan? What is the criteria?
A plan created to control present or impending danger using the least intrusive means appropriate to protect a child when a parent, caregiver, or legal custodian is unavailable, unwilling, or unable to do so.
Specific, Sufficient, Feasible and Sustainable
What are the five safety analysis?
1. Willing to cooperate with services
2. Calm and consistent home
3. Safety services are available at a sufficient level
4. Professional evaluations is not needed
5. Physical Location
What are examples of when you refer children to CPT?
(a) Injuries to the head, bruises to the neck or head, burns, or fractures in a child of any age.
(b) Bruises anywhere on a child 5 years of age or under.
(c) Any report alleging sexual abuse of a child.
(d) Any sexually transmitted disease in a prepubescent child.
(e) Reported malnutrition of a child and failure of a child to thrive.
(f) Reported medical neglect of a child.
(g) Any family in which one or more children have been pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital or other health care facility, or have been injured and later died, as a result of suspected abuse, abandonment, or neglect, when any sibling or other child remains in the home.
(h) Symptoms of serious emotional problems in a child when emotional or other abuse, abandonment, or neglect is suspected.
What are the four types of investigative questions?
Closed questions, Open questions, Indirect, and Solution Focused.