Foster Care and Placement Flashcards

What information must be provided to foster parents at the time of placement, according to best practice and federal requirements?

Answer: Relevant health, educational, and behavioral history to enable the foster parent to meet the child's needs

Foster parents must receive relevant background information about the child's health, education, and behavioral needs to enable them to provide appropriate care and seek necessary services.

What does 'normalcy' mean in the context of foster care, as promoted by the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act of 2014?

Answer: Allowing foster youth to participate in age-appropriate extracurricular activities and social experiences without requiring court approval for each

The 'normalcy' provision allows foster parents to approve age-appropriate activities for youth using a 'reasonable and prudent parent' standard, without requiring court approval for everyday decisions.

When a child is placed with a relative (kinship caregiver) who is unlicensed, what steps should the child welfare worker take?

Answer: Support the relative in obtaining licensure or approval while the child remains placed, if the home is safe

Best practice is to support unlicensed kinship caregivers in meeting licensure standards while allowing the child to remain in the safe, familiar placement, balancing stability with safety requirements.

Which permanency option involves a legal relationship where a caregiver assumes parental responsibilities without terminating the biological parent's rights?

Answer: Legal guardianship

Legal guardianship establishes a legal relationship between child and caregiver with parental responsibilities but does not require termination of parental rights, preserving the legal parent-child relationship.

Under the federal Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act, agencies must identify and document what regarding youth in foster care?

Answer: Whether the youth has been, or is at risk of being, a victim of sex trafficking

The Act requires agencies to identify and document whether youth in foster care are victims or at risk of sex trafficking, due to the disproportionate vulnerability of foster youth to trafficking.

What is a 'disruption' in the context of foster care placements?

Answer: The unplanned, premature end of a foster care placement before the child achieves a permanent home

A placement disruption is the unplanned end of a foster care placement, requiring the child to be moved, which is traumatic and associated with worse outcomes for children.