Lesson One 1 2 3 4 5
INSTRUCTIONS: These questions test material learned in Lesson One of this course. Type in or select the correct answer for each questions. When you have finished, check your responses against the correct answers at the end of the page.
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. The meeting brings resource parent, birth parent and social worker together to faciliate a face to face introduction and encourage information about the likes, dislikes and routines of the child. (FILL IN THE BLANK)
2. The outlines the goals of the case, changes parents must make and the services the family is referred to. (FILL IN THE BLANK)
3. In most cases, the Office of Children's Services is required initially to attempt to reunify the family if a child is in foster care. (CHOOSE ONE)
4. starting early in the placement and happening often is considered one of the primary factors in the success of reunification. (FILL IN THE BLANK)
5. Name two (2) benefits of when resource families and birth families are able to work together cooperatively and without blame. (LIST TWO BENEFITS)
a.
b.
6. means that relatives become foster parents to a child they are related to or know well. (FILL IN THE BLANK)
To best learn the material in this course, try to answer the questions above before checking the answers below.
ANSWERS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. ICE BREAKERS
2. CASE PLAN
3. TRUE
4. VISITATION
5. ANY TWO OF THE FOLLOWING:
- Child’s anxiety about separation is reduced
- Continuity can be maintained for child
- Reduces problems with dividend loyalties
- Smoother visitation and more successful reunification
- Birth parents are less threatened by resource family
- Birth parents can learn constructive parenting from caregivers
- Caregiving family may become support system for birth parent
- Caregiving family can get complete and accurate information about the child
- Simplifies planning for visitation
- Caregiver can learn culturally-specific child care strategies from birth family members, can enhance child’s cultural identity
6. KINSHIP CARE or RELATIVE PLACEMENT
In the Lesson Two, we will look at why keeping children connected to their families is so important and actually helps the child.
Go to Lesson Two.