Foster Care
Child Protection Laws
Abbreviations
Child Sexual Abuse
Child Physical Abuse
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Definition

What "provides support services and substitute care for children requiring out-of-home placement due to child maltreatment enacted by the parent or guardian, and circumstances in which parents or guardians are unable or unwilling to provide adequate care for their children?"

100

CAPTA

What provided funding to child welfare programs?

(Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act)

100

FASD

What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder?

100

Defintion

What is "it is impossible to streamline a true definition?"

100

Definition

What is "an act or failure to act that leads to harm or imminent risk that a child will be harmed?"

200

Original Goal of Modern Child Welfare System

What is child safety?
200

AACWA

What "required child welfare agencies to make “reasonable efforts” to prevent removal of children from their parents’ custody and to reunify families?"

(Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act)

200

GAD

What is Guardian Ad Litem?

200

Four Themes of Skeptism (1900-1975)

What is...Child sexual abuse is uncommon, Sexual abuse is not harmful, Children are responsible for their own victimization, Mothers are culpable

200

Perp Characteristics

What is...Substance abuse or history of childhood maltreatment?

Other valid answers

300

Kinship Foster Care

What is "care provided in the homes of adults who are related to the child through blood, marriage, adoption, tribal or clan members, or others who are determined to have a kinship bond with the child?"

300

ASFA

What "declared that in determining what would constitute reasonable efforts, the “child’s health and safety shall be the paramount concern?"

(Adoption and Safe Families Act)

300

CINA

What is Children in Need of Assisstance?
300

Risk Factor

What is children are at higher risk of sexual abuse?

300

Risk Factors

What is...Younger children, and children with minorities?

Other valid answers

400

Duration

What is temporary?

400

ICWA

What "was passed as a response to a long history of nontribal governmental agencies breaking up Indian families and placing their children in non-Indian institutions and with non-Indian families for adoption?"

(Indian Child Welfare Act)

400

TPR

What is Termination of Parental Rights?
400

Prevention

What is teaching children about sexual abuse?

400

Intervention

What is cognitive behavioral therapy?

500

Permanency Outcomes

What is family reunification, adoption, guardianship, and APPLA?

500

FCIA

What "provides funding for independent living programs, including training for youth to build their employability and financial skills?"

(Foster Care Independence Act)



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500

ICPC

What is Interstate Compact on the Placement for Children?

500

Common Effects

What is...PTSD, anxiety, nightmares, substance abuse, depression, etc?

Many more valid responses

500

Common Effects 

What is emotional disturbance, visual impairment, or motor deficits?

Other valid answers