FTS Vision
Agent of change, forming helping relationships, conducting assessments, advocating, providing behavioral support, linking to services, coordinating services and demonstrating cultural competence compile this.
What are the 9 Core Child Welfare Practices?
This movement placed as many as 150,000 children from eastern cities, orphans or children, from poor families with Midwest farm families.
What is the Orphan Train?
This is when child welfare professionals acknowledge their obligation to assume the professional responsibilities and ethical conduct accompanying that authority.
What is Delegated Authority?
This is the initial tie that develops between newborn babies and their mothers.
What is Bonding?
The manner of interacting with another individual for the purpose of encouraging participation.
What is Engagement?
Focuses on helping children remain connected to parents, extended family and others who are significant. Seeks to view children and families through a trauma lens. Helps families identify and build on their strengths when planning services.
What is Family Centered, Trauma Informed and Strength Based Practice?
This is when the first child abuse case was heard.
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
This is the act of providing families all of the information about what is happening with their children and what they need to do to have them returned to their care.
What is Full Disclosure?
This is one of the essential concepts of human behavior. It is the basis for all human development and is essential for the survival of human infants.
What is Attachment?
This is defined broadly to include birth, blended, kinship, foster and adoptive.
What is Family?
An event that is emotionally painful, distressful, or shocking, which often results in lasting mental and physical effects.
What is Trauma?
Protect children who are reported to be abused or neglected and increase families' capacity to safely care for them; provide for the well-being of children; provide appropriate, permanent families, support early intervention, work in partnership with communities all encompasses this.
What is the DCFS mission statement?
This type of relationship is when we intervene in the lives of those that are less powerful.
What is a Fiduciary Relationship?
Safety, Physical Needs, Family Attachment, Socialization, Cultural & Spiritual, Emotional/Psychological, Health, Educational/Vocational and Legal are all included.
What are the 9 domains of child well-being?
The knowledge and skills in human development and child safety.
What is Competence?
Parental Resilience, Social Connections, Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development, Concrete Supports in time of Need, Social and Emotional Competence of Children and Parent-Child Relationship all contribute to this.
What are Protective Factors?
Protecting children & supporting families is called this.
What is a Dual Mandate?
This policy indicates the prohibitions and limitations on the release of personal information about families and children whether clients or others contacted by child welfare staff.
What is Confidentiality?
Meeting children's medical, education, physical, emotional and other developmental needs is the responsibility of this person.
Who is the Foster or Relative Caregiver?
This is the absence of mixed messages in communication.
What is Genuineness?
Children who grow up with extensive trauma can have health risks as they age. That can result in a higher score on this trauma test.
What is an ACE score? Adverse Childhood Experience
This type of law is enacted by Congress.
What is Federal Law?
This type of conflict is when a child welfare professional is entrusted to exercise objective judgment int he service of an agency and its clients has an interest that could interfere with the objectivity of that judgment.
What is an Actual Conflict?
This approach recognizes that some older caregivers will experience physical or cognitive changes as they age that may affect their ability to provide a healthy and safe environment.
What is a Life-span Approach?
Tuning into a person's emotions and communicating understanding without losing objectivity.
What is Empathy?
This indicates the condition in which services are provided.
What is DCFS Rule?
This was passed as a result of congressional recognition of the importance of preserving the Native American heritage, culture and communities.
What is Indian Child Welfare Act?
This type of conflict of interest is when there is no existing conflict, but there is some likelihood that the situation will change such that there would be an interest which could reasonably affect future decision-making.
What is a Potential Conflict?
This process went into effect in 2006 to recognize the importance of designating a back up caregiver and ensuring that the backup is fully informed about the child.
What is 60+ Process?
The majority of father do NOT have informal supports. True or False.
This consent decree requires DCFS provides due process for people who are accused of abuse or neglect of children. People identified as child care workers are entitled to receive notice of recommendations.
What is Dupuy v Mcewen
This prohibits any consideration of children's race or ethnicity as a factor in deciding which permanent placement will be in their best interest.
What is the Inter-Ethnic Placement Act?
This type of supervision is directed toward helping staff learn what they need to know to carry out their job responsibilities.
What is Educational Supervision?
The ability to maintain a non-judgmental attitude that conveys caring, concern and acceptance of the other person as a unique human being.
What is Respect?
This indicates how to deliver DCFS services.
What is DCFS procedures?
DCFS is an executive branch of this government entity.
What is State government?
This type of supervision is directed toward creating a positive psychological and physical climate for staff.
What is Supportive Supervision?
Change motivated by submitting to an authority.
What is Externally Motivated Change?
This consent decree requires DCFS to not remove children or refuse to return children to their parents solely because of poverty or homelessness.
What is Norman v Suter?
This guides the day-to-day work of child professionals in Illinois.
What is Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act (ANCRA)?
This type of conflict means that even though there may not be a potential or actual conflict, a person unaware of the facts might reasonably infer that a conflict exists.
What is an Apparent Conflict?
This interview state encourages family members to talk to each other.
What is the Focus Stage?
This consent decree requires DCFS to meet a standard of care that provides education, and services to enable children to secure their own safety and provide for their own needs.
What is BH v McDonald?
This Act requires that permanency hearings occur no later than 12 months after the children enter foster care and no less than every 12 months as long as they are in foster care.
What is Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) 1997
This is the Illinois system that is used to record case information.
What is SACWIS? Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System?
These are the 4 stages of interviewing.
What is social, problem definition, focus and closure?
Teachers, DCFS staff, social workers, child care workers, doctors are examples of these.
What are Mandated Reporters?
This type of supervision is directed towards clinical interventions.
What is Clinical Supervision?
This type of questions incorporates statements that imply questions, I wonder if...
What is an Indirect Question?
This consent decree ensures that siblings are placed together unless there are certain exceptions.
What is Aristotle vs McDonald?
This type of supervision focuses on job performance and how it is related to the agency's mission.
What is Administrative Supervision?
This stage of interviewing is when the professional seeks the family's perspective of their situation.
What is the Problem Definition/Needs Identification stage?
This consent decree requires DCFS to ensure parents and children have weekly visitation and that visits are in the parent's home when safe.
What is Bates v McDonald?
What are Critical Decisions?
This skill is used when he or she communicates to the family members that they are being heard. This technique also assists professionals by ensuring that they have a clear understanding of the families' perceptions of the problem.
What is Accommodating?
This consent decree ensures that services are provided in Spanish.
What is Burgos v Suter?
If the child is 6 or older, child protection staff should always observe the children's bodies in their entirety. True or False.
What is False?
This consent decree requires DCFS to provide adequate placement and programming for DCFS youth in care who are pregnant and/or parenting.
What is Hill v Erickson?
Specific rights and responsibilities of foster caregivers are enumerated in the licensing standards known as this.
What is the Foster Parent Law?