Title SOS, Social Services

§ 409-f. Uniform case recording. 1. With respect to each child described in subdivision one of section four hundred nine-e of this title, the social services district shall establish and maintain a uniform case record, consisting of the assessment, the family service plan, descr…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 409-n. Implementation. 1. The department shall plan for the implementation of the services case management system during the period from the first day of July, nineteen hundred eighty-four to the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred eighty-five. 2. Subject to the approp…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 410-p. Definitions. As used in this title, the term: 1. "Agency" shall mean a not-for-profit corporation or group of not-for-profit corporations. With respect to any county for which no appropriate not-for-profit corporation or group of corporations has submitted a proposal, s…

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

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

§ 410-s. State reimbursement. 1. The commissioner shall allocate annually any state funds, including any available federal funds, appropriated for such purposes among the agencies approved for funding pursuant to this title. The commissioner shall allocate such funds pursuant to…

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

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

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

§ 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 maintain the amount of local funds spent for child care assistance under the child care block grant at a level equal to or greater than the amount the district spent for child care assistance during federal f…

§ 410-z. Reporting requirements. Each social services district shall collect and submit to the office of children and family services, in such form and at such times as specified by the office of children and family services, such data and information regarding child care assist…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 416. Obligations of persons required to report. Any person or official required to report cases of suspected child abuse and maltreatment may take or cause to be taken at public expense photographs of the areas of trauma visible on a child who is subject to a report and, if me…

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

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

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

§ 42. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. "Homeless project" shall mean a specific facility, including lands, buildings and improvements acquired, constructed, renovated or …