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CWEL EXAM ACTUAL EXAM ALL 400 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS VERIFIED 2024-
2025 JUST RELEASED
CWEL EXAM ACTUAL EXAM
Social work principles guiding permanency planning include all but the following:
- Decision making based on a child's sense of time
- A focus on achieving health, well-being and safety for children
- Full disclosure
- Seeking extended family members as permanency options only after parents have failed at
reunification - ANSWER-d. Seeking extended family members as permanency options only after parents have failed at reunification
Permanency goals that are not available to children who may be returning home are:
- Return Home within one year
- Substitute Care Pending Court Determination on Termination of Parental Rights
- Return Home Pending Status Hearing
- Return Home Within 5 months - ANSWER-b. Substitute Care Pending Court Determination on
Termination of Parental Rights
A permanency goal, after the first 12 months following case opening is selected by: 1 / 4
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- The family
- The court
- The DCFS worker
- The private agency worker - ANSWER-b. The court
To select the permanency goal of independence, a minor would need to be ____ years of age or older.
- 15
- 13
- 18
- 10 - ANSWER-a. 15
Poor prognosis cases do not require:
- Selection of a "return home within 12 months" permanency goal
- Placement of children in potentially permanent homes by the 90th day of placement
- Filing for expedited termination
- Written, detailed and specific alternative permanency planning - ANSWER-c. Filing for
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expedited termination
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Expedited termination may be pursued in all but which of these circumstances:
- There has been sexual abuse
- There has been a conviction of one parent for the murder of the child's other parent
- Extreme and repeated cruelty has been inflicted on a child
- When a parent is incarcerated and was not involved with their child prior to incarceration
and will be incarcerated two years after filing for termination. - ANSWER-a. There has been sexual abuse
The selection of some permanency goals requires the "ruling out" of other goals such as reunification, adoption and subsidized guardianship. Which of these do not fall into this
category:
- Guardianship
- Independence
- Continuing Foster Care
- Cannot be Provided for in a Home Environment
- None of these - ANSWER-e. None of these
Service plans are designed using two factors - Outcomes and Actions. Which of these reflects an
action step:
- Mrs. Jones will not leave her children unsupervised
- Mr. Peter will remain drug free 3 / 4
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- Ms. Tara will attend counseling at ABC agency to address the issues of why her children came
- Kelly will attend school every day and be on time.
- a & b
- c & d - ANSWER-f. c & d
into care
Client service plans document both reasonable efforts on the part of the child welfare agency as well as reasonable progress by the parents/family.(T or F) - ANSWER-T
One of the purposes of client service plans is to prevent "foster care drift" in placement cases.(T or F) - ANSWER-T
The child welfare worker is not responsible in assuring the informed consent of clients who are resistant or hostile.(T or F) - ANSWER-F
Permanency planning begins with the first client contact.(T or F) - ANSWER-T
The permanency goal of "adoption" is selected at the point that parental reunification is no longer feasible and the next step is to seek termination of parental rights.(T or F) - ANSWER-F
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