Illinois Child Welfare Employee License (CWEL) Test 2025 – 400 Free Practice Questions to Pass the Exam

Family preservation involves actively seeking to reunify a child with their birth family by providing services and support to the family in order to address the issues that led to the child's placement in foster care. This pathway focuses on maintaining the family unit whenever possible and minimizing the need for foster care or adoption.

Regarding the other options:

- Family isolation is not a recognized pathway to permanency in child welfare. It does not involve efforts to reunify the child with their birth family.

- Child adoption focuses on permanently placing a child with an adoptive family when reunification with the birth family is not possible or in the best interest of the child.

- Rapid termination does not involve efforts to reunify the child with their birth family. This option implies a swift or immediate termination of parental rights without actively working towards reunification.