Fall 2024 SOWK 450 Social Welfare Policies & Services Final Exam PDF

Fall 2024: SOWK 450: Social Welfare Policies & Services Final Examination of Understanding Test Preparation Questions Designed by Couse Students NOTE: As discussed in class, some questions may be revised, altered, not used, or potentially replaced based on the clarity, depth, and quali...

Fall 2024: SOWK 450: Social Welfare Policies & Services Final Examination of Understanding Test Preparation Questions Designed by Couse Students NOTE: As discussed in class, some questions may be revised, altered, not used, or potentially replaced based on the clarity, depth, and quality of the questions. These changes will be reflected in the exam itself and not within the document itself because of the time needed to fully review and flush out questions. Multiple Choice Questions 1. The constellation of public services designed to protect and promote the well-being of children is..? A) The child welfare system B) Family system C) Child protective services D) Social security act E) None of the responses 2. What policy was founded in New York to care for children who were orphaned? A) Family Support Act B) Economic Opportunity Act C) Children's Aid Society D) No Child Left Behind Act E) None of the responses 3. Head Start was established in 1964 as what act? A) Economic Opportunity Act B) Family Support C) Children’s Aid Society D) No Child Left Behind Act E) None of the responses 4. What legislation is the foundation of all protective services today? A) Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 B) TANF C) Title XX D) Maternal and Child Health Act E) None of the responses 5. In 2016, what percentage of children aged 12-19 were found overweight? A) 6% B) 20% C) 19% D) 15% E) None of the responses 6. What insurance program was created as a federal state program that gave states flexibility in board federal guidelines? A) Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) B) Maternal and Child Health Act C) Medicare D) Medicaid E) None of the responses 7. All are child welfare components of the social security act except… A) TANF B) Medicaid C) Social Services Block Grant D) Children’s Health Insurance Program E) Head Start 8. Private organizations founded in New York to care for children who were orphaned whose families were too poor to care for them. A) Children’s Aid Society B) Children’s Health Insurance Program C) Child Protective Services D) Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 E) None of the responses 9. Federal legislation from the early 2000s mandating higher teacher outcomes for public schools. A) Individuals with Disabilities Education Act B) No Child Left Behind Act C) National Center on Child Abuse D) Elementary and Secondary Education Act E) None of the responses 10. Programs added to the Social Security Act that later became the Social Services Block Grants (SSBG). A) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) B) Child Protective Services C) Title XX D) Title IX E) None of the responses 11. Child Support Enforcement… A) is used to get child support payments from noncustodial parents B) enforces children attending school consistently C) is used to provide housing to low-income families D) provides federal assistance to develop treatment programs for child neglect and mistreatment E) None of the responses 12. The War on Poverty created each of the following programs except for_______. A) Food stamps (now called SNAP) B) Women, Infants and Children (WIC) C) Head Start D) Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) E) None of the responses 13. All of the following are key areas of child welfare services except______. A) income assistance B) food and nutrition C) health D) immigration E) None of the responses  14. What is not one of the three types of child welfare services? A) Supportive B) Supplementary C) Substitutive D) Societal E) None of the responses 15. What program was created in 1853 to children who were orphaned, had left their families, or whose families were too poor to care for them. A) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families B) Children’s Aid Society C) Children’s Health Insurance program (CHIP) D) Maternal and Child Health Act E) None of the responses 16. What percentage of TANF recipients are children. A) 10% B) 25% C) 56% D) 92% E) None of the responses 17. Which health insurance program was created to provide coverage for children without access to health insurance who did not qualify for Medicaid. A) Affordable Care Act B) Medicare C) Children’s Health Insurance Program D) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families E) None of these responses 18. What is the primary focus of Chapter 11 in the text? A) The history of social welfare policy B) Advocacy strategies for social workers C) Policies addressing poverty and inequality D) The role of government in health care policy E) Realistic challenges and shortcomings within the child welfare system 19. According to the text, which group is disproportionately affected by poverty____? A) single-parent families B) rural families C) dual income families D) older adults E) None of these responses 20. What major reform effort in the 1990s reshaped social welfare? A) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families B) Welfare Reform Act C) The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) D) The Affordable Care Act E) None of the responses 21. The chapter emphasizes the importance of which of the following when addressing systemic poverty?. A) increasing the minimum wage B) tax reforms targeting high earners C) expanding housing subsidies D) developing a new health care component of the Social Security Act E) All of the above 22. What was NOT the purpose of the Children's Aid Society? A) Care for children who were orphaned B) Families were too poor to care for them C) Children in foster care D) Children who have left their families E) None of the responses 23. What is Child Welfare policy? A) Public intervention in relation to children and families mandated and guided by social welfare policies B) Private intervention concerning children and families mandated and guided by social welfare systems C) Public services designed to protect and promote the well-being of children D) Private services designed for family preservation and welfare reform E) None of the responses 24. What is TANF most often thought of as? A) A child welfare B) A poverty program C) A family program D) A long-term program E) None of the responses 25. What program is designed to assist custodial parents in receiving payments from noncustodial parents. A) Child Support Implementation Program B) No Child Left Behind C) Permanency Planning D) Child Support Enforcement Program E) None of the responses 26. What Act was made to emphasize the adoption of older foster care children? A) Adoption and Safe Families Act B) No Child Left Behind Act C) Safe Families Act D) Family Preservation Act E) None of the responses 27. What is foster care? A) Long-term care for children without a home B) A program that takes children away from families for money C) Temporary care with the goal of reuniting children with their families D) Finding permanent placement for children ending up in adoption E) None of the responses 28. How many states have compulsory education laws? A) 25 states B) 40 states C) 50 states D) 18 states E) None of the responses 29. What are the main systems that compose the Child Welfare System? A) Child protective services (CPS), Foster Care, Adoption, Family Preservation B) Child Protective Services (CPS), Housing Assistance, Education assistance C) Foster Care, Unemployment insurance, Family Preservation, Foster Care D) Income maintenance, foster care, DACA, Education assistance E) None of the responses 30. How many years can you get income from TANF? A) 4 years B) 3 years C) 2 years D) 3.5 years E) 6 years 31. What was public perception about child services prior to the 1900s? A) family is the key social resource, and the public should only intervene in extremes B) the public is the key social resource, and the family should only intervene in extremes C) the church and community would intervene more than families D) animals should have more protection than children E) None of the responses 32. Who was the child support enforcement mandated through? A) Social Security Act B) Unemployment Insurance Act C) Medicaid Act D) Temporary Assistance for needy families (TANF) E) None of the responses 33. What was the major policy intended to provide education to all children? A) Social Security Act B) Temporary Assistance for needy families (TANF) C) Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 D) No Child left behind act of 2001 E) No responses 34. Major Federal In-Kind programs include: A) Income assistance, parenting skills, CHIP B) Medicaid, CHIP, Maternal Health Care, WIC, parenting skills C) foster care, Income assistance, SNAP D) WIC, Medicaid, Adoption, SNAP E) None of the responses  35. Based on your reading, every day in the United States, there are _____________ A) 4 children killed by abuse or neglect B) 6 children killed by abuse or neglect C) 3 children killed by abuse or neglect D) 7 children killed by abuse or neglect E) None of the responses True/False 1. Over the years, TANF has become less of a family program and more of a children's support program as the proportion of children recipients has grown. 2. More than 45 million dependent children receive Medicaid services. 3. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act established extended coverage of both Medicaid and CHIP. 4. The mortality rate for African American infants is the same as the mortality rate for white infants. 5. More than 2.7 million children are cared for by extended family members or close family friends. 6. One reason schools experience disparities in resources and funding is due to the dependence of school funding on property taxes. 7. Almost all public social services for children and families focus on problems that have already occurred, not on preventing problems. 8. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was not focused on low-income children. 9. Reunification is not possible for many children in foster care which leads them to placements in group care until adulthood. 10. 92% of individuals that are TANF recipients are under 15 years old. 11. People still receive government funding after adopting a child without any disabilities. 12. The Adoption and Safe Families Act helps to make sure children are safe and healthy when reunifying families. 13. Up until the 1870’s, families raised their children with complete autonomy. 14. Foster care and adoption are the major social program intervention. 15. The Mary Ellen case brought new attention to child abuse. 16. The child welfare program is residual. 17. The anti-poverty programs such as WIC, Head Start, Medicaid, and the Child health act were created from the war on poverty. 18. Formal legislation against child abuse and neglect was initiated by the Sheppard-Towner Act of 192. 19. Open Ended: Describe the pros and cons of temporary and permanent removal options for children affected by abuse and neglect. 20. Open Ended: Explain the Indian Child Welfare Act. Discuss its goals and benefits. 21. Open Ended: Discuss the effects of poverty on children and the implications for social workers at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. 22. The ICWA stands for Infants and Children's Welfare Act 23. The Family and Medical Leave Act represents one of the few times the federal government adopted a preventative approach to child and family welfare. 24. Medicaid has supported children since the early 1900s. ~Essays Prompts~ 1) Abuse and neglect are a very common issue among children today, name and explain 2 specific policies within the child welfare system that protect children from these issues. 2) There are six key periods of federal government involvement in child and family welfare, identify and explain one of the periods. 3) Explain 2 of the major policies involved in supporting children with disabilities and give specific examples. 4) How does Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) contribute to child welfare? Give three examples of specifics of the program. 5) Explain what the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) does and conflicting opinions as to whether it is a helpful act. 6) The Head Start Program is an educational and anti-poverty program. Give one example of how it is an educational program and one example of how it is an antipoverty program. 7) Discuss the Family Preservation Program and the challenges faced by child welfare agencies during its implementation on a larger scale in urban settings. How do systematic issues such as poverty and racial discrimination impact the effectiveness of this program? 8) The balance between family preservation and the best interest of the child remains a central tension in child welfare policy. Thinking about recent legislation, discuss how policymakers have attempted to address this balance and the challenges that remain. 9) How do societal values and beliefs impact the programs created to assist children and families? 10) What was the purpose of the major federal programs TANF and Child? 11) Support Enforcement and what population benefited the most from it? 12) What was the progressive era and how did it benefit future social work? 13) What was the purpose of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and what did it help to provide? 14) What are the purpose and goals of the No Child Left Behind Act, and how does this impact children and their families? 15) What are the goals and purpose of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, how does it impact children and families? 16) Describe the pros and cons of temporary and permanent removal options for children affected by abuse and neglect. 17) Explain the Indian Child Welfare Act. Discuss its goals and benefits. 18) Open Ended: Discuss the effects of poverty on children and the implications for social workers at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.