Title SOS, Social Services

§ 409-f. Uniform case recording. 1. With respect to each child\ndescribed in subdivision one of section four hundred nine-e of this\ntitle, the social services district shall establish and maintain a\nuniform case record, consisting of the assessment, the family service\nplan, d…

§ 409-g. Training of child welfare personnel. Within the amounts\nappropriated therefor, including all federal reimbursement received or\nto be received on account thereof, the department shall develop and\nimplement a plan for the training of social services district and other\…

§ 409-h. Assessment of appropriateness of placement in a qualified\nresidential treatment program. 1. (a) Prior to a child's placement in a\nqualified residential treatment program, as defined in subdivision four\nof this section, but at least within thirty days of the start of …

§ 409-i. Short title; legislative findings; purpose. 1. This title\nshall be known and may be cited and referred to as the "teenage services\nact".\n 2. The legislature finds that the rising incidence of adolescent\npregnancy and teenage parenthood is the subject of a widespread…

§ 409-j. Case management. 1. As used in this title, "case management"\nshall refer to a method of providing necessary prevention and support\nservices, directly or by purchase of services, to recipients of public\nassistance and shall require the facilitating of such services fo…

§ 409-k. Case plan and service record. 1. With respect to each\nindividual who is identified as requiring case management services\npursuant to this title, the social services district shall, within\nthirty days of such identification, perform or have performed an initial\njoint…

§ 409-l. Advisory board. An advisory board shall be established by the\ncommissioner to assist in the development and implementation of the case\nmanagement provisions. It will be the responsibility of this board to\nassist in the development of various service models that local…

§ 409-m. Reports. 1. The commissioner shall prepare, for inclusion in\nthe annual report required by subdivision (d) of section seventeen of\nthis chapter to be filed with the governor and the legislature prior to\nDecember fifteenth of each year, a progress report on the planni…

§ 409-n. Implementation. 1. The department shall plan for the\nimplementation of the services case management system during the period\nfrom the first day of July, nineteen hundred eighty-four to the\nthirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred eighty-five.\n 2. Subject to the a…

§ 41. Legislative findings and purpose. The legislature hereby finds\nthat large numbers of people in communities across our state are unable\nto secure housing for themselves and are living in the streets or in\nemergency shelters, despite current efforts by public and private\…

§ 410. Day care; when public welfare official to furnish. 1. A public\nwelfare official of a county, city or town is authorized, provided funds\nhave been made available therefor, to provide day care at public expense\nfor children residing in his territory who are eligible ther…

§ 410-a. Day care; when department to furnish. Any inconsistent\nprovision of law notwithstanding, if and so long as federal funds are\navailable for the care provided pursuant to the provisions of this\nsection, and to the extent of such funds and state funds appropriated or\nm…

* § 410-aa. Waitlist requirements. 1. Each social services district\nshall maintain a waiting list of families who have applied for child\ncare assistance pursuant to this title but have not been authorized for\nsuch assistance due to a lack of available funds under either the\n…

§ 410-b. Federal grants. 1. The department of taxation and finance\nis authorized to accept and receive from the federal government any\nmoneys which the federal government shall offer to the state for or with\nrespect to the construction, maintenance or operation of facilities …

§ 410-bb. Grants to not-for-profit facilities providing day care for\nchildren for employee salary and benefit enhancements. 1. The\nlegislature finds and declares that a crisis exists in the availability\nand quality of child day care in New York state and that this crisis\npos…

§ 410-c. State reimbursement. 1. (a) Expenditures made by counties,\ncities, and towns for day care and its administration, and day care\ncenter projects, pursuant to the provisions of this title, shall, if\napproved by the department, be subject to reimbursement by the state, i…

§ 410-cc. Start up grants for child day care. The commissioner shall\nprovide funds to start up grants to not-for-profit organizations or\ncorporations for the development of new or expanded all day child day\ncare programs including costs related to planning, renting, renovatin…

§ 410-ccc. Child day care facility development. 1. Notwithstanding any\nother provision of law, of the moneys appropriated to the department in\nsection one of chapter fifty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred\nninety-four, enacting the capital projects budget, four million sev…

§ 410-d. Short title: policy and purposes of title. This title shall\nbe known, and may be cited and referred to, as the "Youth Facilities\nImprovement Act".\n There is a serious shortage throughout the state of facilities\nsuitable for use for the care of children especially th…

§ 410-e. Definitions. As used in this title the following words and\nphrases shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning is\nplainly required by the context:\n 1. "Board". The state board of social welfare.\n 2. "Commissioner". The commissioner of social service…

§ 410-f. Regulation of eligible borrowers. 1. Every eligible\nborrower, as a condition precedent to borrowing funds from the agency,\nshall enter into a regulatory agreement with the commissioner which\nshall provide:\n (a) that the real property or other assets mortgaged or oth…

§ 410-g. Mortgage loans. 1. Any eligible borrower may, subject to\nthe approval of the commissioner, borrow funds from the agency and\nsecure the repayment thereof by bond or note and mortgage which shall\ncontain such terms and conditions as may be deemed necessary or\ndesirabl…

§ 410-h. Conditions and security for loans. No loan shall be made by\nthe agency to an eligible borrower until the commissioner has approved\nthe project and finds that:\n 1. The eligible borrower has been approved by the commissioner and\ncomplied with all the provisions of thi…

§ 410-i. Rates and admission of children. 1. An eligible borrower\nshall, with the approval of the commissioner, fix a schedule of rates to\nbe charged parents, guardians or other persons having legal custody of\nthe child and to social services officials or other authorized age…

§ 410-j. Transfer of real property. Notwithstanding any requirement\nof law to the contrary or any provision of any general, special or local\nlaw, charter or ordinance, every executor, administrator, trustee,\nguardian or other person holding trust funds or acting in a fiduciar…

§ 410-k. Supervision. 1. The commissioner may from time to time\nmake, alter, amend and repeal rules and regulations for the supervision,\nexamination, regulation and audit of an eligible borrower and for\ncarrying into effect this title, and each eligible borrower shall submit\…

§ 410-l. Foreclosures and judgments. 1. In any foreclosure action\nthe commissioner shall be made a party defendant. He shall take all\nsteps necessary to protect the interests of the public therein and no\ncosts shall be awarded against him. Foreclosures shall not be decreed\nu…

§ 410-m. Fees and charges. The commissioner may, by regulation,\nestablish and charge to eligible borrowers such fees and charges for\ninspection, regulation, supervision and audit as to the commissioner may\nappear just and reasonable in order to recover the departmental costs …

§ 410-o. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of\nthis article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to\nbe invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the\nremainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the …

§ 410-p. Definitions. As used in this title, the term:\n 1. "Agency" shall mean a not-for-profit corporation or group of\nnot-for-profit corporations. With respect to any county for which no\nappropriate not-for-profit corporation or group of corporations has\nsubmitted a propos…

§ 410-q. Child care resource and referral program services. 1. Each\nagency approved to receive funding pursuant to this title shall, to the\nextent funds are available for such purposes, provide the following:\n (a) Information and referral services directed at educating parent…

§ 410-r. Child care resource and referral programs. 1. The\ncommissioner shall solicit applications for available funds from\nagencies pursuant to this title in a manner to ensure that agencies in\nevery area of the state will have an opportunity to apply for funds. The\ncommiss…

§ 410-s. State reimbursement. 1. The commissioner shall allocate\nannually any state funds, including any available federal funds,\nappropriated for such purposes among the agencies approved for funding\npursuant to this title. The commissioner shall allocate such funds\npursuan…

§ 410-t. Responsibilities of the commissioner. 1. The commissioner\nshall monitor the performance of agencies to assure that the terms of\nthe contract are met, that the services are provided in accordance with\nthe intent of this title and that funds are used as required by thi…

§ 410-u. Establishment of block grant for child care. 1. The\ndepartment shall establish a state block grant for child care comprised\nof all of the federal funds appropriated for child care under title IV-A\nof the federal social security act and under the federal child care an…

§ 410-v. Allocation of block grant funds. 1. The part of the block\nthat is determined to be available to social services districts for\nchild care assistance shall be apportioned among the social services\ndistricts by the department according to an allocation plan developed by…

§ 410-w. Eligible families. 1. A social services district may use the\nfunds allocated to it from the block grant to provide child care\nassistance to:\n (a) families receiving public assistance when such child care\nassistance is necessary: to enable a parent or caretaker relat…

§ 410-x. Use of funds. 1. A social services district shall expend its\nallocation from the block grant in a manner that provides for equitable\naccess to child care assistance funds to eligible families, and in\naccordance with the applicable provisions in federal law regarding …

§ 410-y. Maintenance of effort. 1. Each social services district shall\nmaintain the amount of local funds spent for child care assistance under\nthe child care block grant at a level equal to or greater than the\namount the district spent for child care assistance during federa…

* § 410-z. Reporting requirements. Each social services district shall\ncollect and submit to the department, in such form and at such times as\nspecified by the department, such data and information regarding child\ncare assistance provided under the block grant as the departme…

§ 411. Findings and purpose. Abused and maltreated children in this\nstate are in urgent need of an effective child protective service to\nprevent them from suffering further injury and impairment. It is the\npurpose of this title to encourage more complete reporting of suspecte…

§ 412. General definitions. When used in this title and unless the\nspecific context indicates otherwise:\n 1. An "abused child" means a child under eighteen years of age and who\nis defined as an abused child by the family court act;\n 2. A "maltreated child" includes a child u…

§ 413. Persons and officials required to report cases of suspected\nchild abuse or maltreatment. 1. (a) The following persons and officials\nare required to report or cause a report to be made in accordance with\nthis title when they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child…

§ 414. Any person permitted to report. In addition to those persons\nand officials required to report suspected child abuse or maltreatment,\nany person may make such a report if such person has reasonable cause to\nsuspect that a child is an abused or maltreated child.\n

§ 415. Reporting procedure. Reports of suspected child abuse or\nmaltreatment made pursuant to this title shall be made immediately by\ntelephone or by telephone facsimile machine on a form supplied by the\ncommissioner of the office of children and family services. Oral reports…

§ 416. Obligations of persons required to report. Any person or\nofficial required to report cases of suspected child abuse and\nmaltreatment may take or cause to be taken at public expense photographs\nof the areas of trauma visible on a child who is subject to a report\nand, i…

§ 417. Taking a child into protective custody. 1. (a) Pursuant to the\nrequirements and provisions of the family court act, a peace officer,\nacting pursuant to his or her special duties, a police officer, a law\nenforcement official, or a designated employee of a city or county…

§ 418. Mandatory reporting to and post-mortem investigation of deaths\nby medical examiner or coroner. Any person or official required to\nreport cases of suspected child abuse or maltreatment, including workers\nof the local child protective service who has reasonable cause to\…

§ 419. Immunity from liability. Any person, official, or institution\nparticipating in good faith in the providing of a service pursuant to\nsection four hundred twenty-four of this title, the making of a report,\nthe taking of photographs, the removal or keeping of a child purs…

§ 42. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall\nhave the following meanings unless the context clearly requires\notherwise:\n 1. "Homeless project" shall mean a specific facility, including lands,\nbuildings and improvements acquired, constructed, renovate…