Deck 14: Foster Care

Question 1

The ______ agency is the child welfare authority within a given jurisdiction.

A)Title IX
B)Title IV-E
C)Title X
D)Title V-E

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Establishing ______ for children in foster care is crucial for a child's well-being and has become a decisive focus of the child welfare system.

A)a case plan
B)a treatment plan
C)timely permanency
D)a positive foster family relationship

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Mary is 7 years old.Mary's mother, Kim, just experienced a job loss and has not been able to get Mary to child care while she looks for a job.Additionally, the house does not have a lot of food because Mary has not had time to update her income for her SNAP benefits.A neighbor noticed Mary at home alone during the day and called CPS.The case worker offered Kim an alternate to out of home placement that included much needed resources such as food, transportation, day care, and frequent home visits.This all happened within 24 hr.What type of service is this?

A)case planning services
B)permanency planning services
C)intensive family preservation services
D)emergency crisis CPS services

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The majority of foster care placement changes are due to which of the following?

A)foster parents moving or experiencing their own crisis
B)foster parents being unfit
C)children having behavior problems
D)children having undiagnosed medical problems

Question 5

A licensed or unlicensed home of the child's relatives regarded by the Title IV-E agency as a foster care living arrangement for the child is defined as ______.

A)relative care
B)Title IV-E care
C)family foster care
D)kinship care

Question 6

What was the purpose of the Indian Child Welfare Act?

A)reduction of inappropriate removals of Native American children
B)to pay closer attention to child maltreatment on the reservations
C)to take the onus off the federal government for child protection of Indian children
D)to increase the amount of child welfare officers on tribal lands

Question 7

Approximately ______ of children exit foster care through adoption.

A)10%
B)15%
C)20%
D)25%

Question 8

In 2014, there were ______ reports of child abuse and neglect made to child protection agencies across the United States involving 6.6 million children.

A)3.6 million
B)4.2 million
C)7 million
D)360,000

Question 9

The media attention attributed to Kempe's publication and the Children's Bureau convening led to every state enacting mandatory reporting laws of child abuse and neglect by ______.

A)1962
B)1974
C)1967
D)1912

Question 10

Research shows that children and youth in foster care are being prescribed psychotropic medications at rates ______ times higher than those not in care.

A)3-7
B)3.5-11
C)6-9.3
D)3.5-6.5

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a reason cited by the authors for the high turnover rates in foster parenting.

A)insufficient financial supports
B)poor relationships with the child welfare agency
C)difficulty navigating the system
D)poor relationships with the children

Question 12

Efforts to keep children safe go back as far as ______.

A)1974
B)1912
C)1875
D)1600s

Question 13

Which of the following is the most preferential permanency outcome?

A)adoption
B)guardianship
C)permanent living arrangement
D)reunification

Question 14

Research shows that between ______ and ______ of children under the age of 5 in foster care were significantly developmentally delayed upon screening compared with 10%-12% of the general population.

A)50%; 60%
B)23%; 61%
C)30%; 61%
D)23%; 51%

Question 15

In 2013, estimates showed incidents of maltreatment of children while in foster care ranged from 0% to ______ across states.

A)1.34%
B )6.23%
C)2.31%
D)10.2%

Question 16

Since 2007, the number of children in foster care awaiting adoption has ______.

A)increased
B)decreased
C)stayed the same
D)waxed and waned

Question 17

In 2014, on a single day ______ of children in the foster care system were placed in pre-adoptive homes.

A)21%
B)4%
C)6%
D)15%

Question 18

What was the purpose of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act?

A)to help families that wanted to adopt foster children able to do so quicker
B)to require reasonable efforts to keep children in their homes, reunite families, and have a permanency plan
C)to give foster parents funding to adopt children
D)to provide funding for long-term foster care

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT a negative outcome mentioned by the authors that children in foster care are at increased risk for?

A)delinquency
B)teen birth
C)mental and physical health issues
D)perpetration of domestic violence

Question 20

Federal mandates require child protection agencies to make "______" to remedy the reason a child entered foster care.

A)limited efforts
B)their best efforts
C)reasonable efforts
D)increased efforts

Question 21

What are intensive family preservation services (IFPS)? What happens when IFPS are offered?

Question 22

Discuss the importance of timely permanency, include a discussion of demographic differences, as well as outcomes for those who stay in foster care longer.

Question 23

Describe permanency in terms of relational and legal relationships.

Question 24

Discuss the process and timeline of child maltreatment investigations.

Question 25

Discuss the order preferential outcomes for permanency planning.Please cite the related statistics to each outcome as discussed by the authors.