CWEL Foster Care and Placement 3

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Legal guardianship

Answer

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.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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.

CWEL - Child Welfare Licence Practice Test

CWEL - Child Welfare Licence Practice Test

CWEL Foster Care and Placement 3