The process of shifting children from one foster home is referred to in your text as:
a. Long-term displacement
b. Languishing
c. Long-term care drift
d. Foster care drift
Situations where children cannot go home and face lengthy waits for adoption are
commonly referred to as:
a. Foster Care Languishing
b. Permanent Foster Care
c. Foster Care with Tenure
d. Tenured Care
Medicaid is becoming less utilized because of the dramatic increase since 1997
welfare reform of minimum-wage, entry-level jobs offering employee sponsored
health benefits.
a. True
b. False
The 1920s was a time of increased interest in child welfare services.
a. True
b. False
Public agency-sponsored adoptions are significantly more expensive than other
types of adoption, often costing in excess of 5000 per child.
a. True
b. False
Programs that focus on such things as child development and methods of
managing behaviors are called:
a. Head Start programs
b. Early Identification programs
c. Parenting education and support programs
d. Early Intervention programs
Head start is:
a. Commonly criticized for failing to meet federally defined educational
goals
b. A federally funded preschool program for disadvantaged children
c. A federally funded preschool program for all children
d. A federally funded educational entitlement program
e. Both A and D
Child welfare became a part of professional social work in:
a. Boston in the late 1800s
b. New York in the 1930s
c. Response to a dramatic increase in orphaned children
d. A dramatic increase in single parent homes
The most significant difference(s) between adoptive parents pursuing independent
adoption and adoptive parents pursuing adoption from a public child welfare
system is/are:
a. Education level
b. Income
c. Age
d. Race
e. A and B
Reducing the length of time that children wait for adoptive placement is a goal of
what legislation:
a. The Adoption and Safe Families Act
b. The Multiethnic Placement Act
c. The Adoptive Family Placement Act
d. The Foster Family Drift Act
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