Title SOS, Social Services

§ 458-a. Definitions. As used in this title:\n 1. "Child" shall mean a person under the age of twenty-one years whose\ncustody, care and custody, or custody and guardianship have been\ncommitted to a social services official prior to such person's\neighteenth birthday pursuant t…

§ 458-b. Kinship guardianship assistance payments. 1. A child is\neligible for kinship guardianship assistance payments under this title\nif the social services official determines the following:\n (a) The child has been in foster care for at least six consecutive\nmonths in the…

§ 458-c. Payments for non-recurring guardianship expenses. 1. A social\nservices official shall make payments for non-recurring guardianship\nexpenses incurred by or on behalf of the relatives or successor\nguardians who have been approved by the social services official to\nrec…

§ 458-d. Medical subsidy. 1. Any child with respect to whom federally\nreimbursable kinship guardianship assistance payments are made under\nthis title is eligible for medical assistance under title XIX of the\nfederal social security act.\n 2. In addition, a social services off…

§ 458-e. Independent living services. In accordance with regulations\nof the office of children and family services, any child who leaves\nfoster care for guardianship with a relative after attaining sixteen\nyears of age for whom kinship guardianship assistance payments are bei…

§ 458-f. Fair hearings. 1. Any person aggrieved by the decision of a\nsocial services official not to make a payment or payments pursuant to\nthis title or to make such payment or payments in an inadequate or\ninappropriate amount or the failure of a social services official to\…

§ 458-l. Education reform program. 1. As used in this section:\n (a) "eligible person" means an individual who (i) is, or is at risk of\nbeing, the subject of a person in need of supervision petition in family\ncourt where elements of an eligible offense have been indicated; or …

§ 458-m. Family support services programs. 1. As used in this title,\nthe term "family support services programs" shall mean a program\nestablished pursuant to this title to provide community-based supportive\nservices to children and families with the goal of (i) preventing a\n…

§ 458-n. Funding for family support services programs. 1.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, to the\nextent that funds are available for such purpose and specifically\nappropriated therefor, the office of children and family services shall\ndistribute f…

§ 458-o. Differential response programs for children under twelve. 1.\nEach local social services district, upon the approval of the office of\nchildren and family services, shall establish a program that implements\ndifferential responses to provide services to children under t…

§ 459-a. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Victim of domestic\nviolence" means any person over the age of sixteen, any married person\nor any parent accompanied by his or her minor child or children in\nsituations in which such person or such person's child is a victim o…

§ 459-b. Residential services for victims of domestic violence. In\naccordance with section one hundred thirty-one-u of this chapter and the\nregulations of the office of children and family services, a social\nservices district shall offer and provide necessary and available\ne…

§ 459-c. Non-residential services for victims of domestic violence. 1.\nIn accordance with the provisions of this section and the regulations of\nthe department, a social services district shall offer and provide\nnon-residential services including but not limited to, informatio…

§ 459-d. Reporting requirements. The commissioner shall submit a\nreport prior to December fifteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-eight and\nannually thereafter to the governor and the legislature regarding the\nimplementation of this article. Such report shall include:\n 1. the num…

§ 459-e. Technical assistance. To the extent that funds are available,\nthe department shall arrange for or provide technical assistance to\nresidential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic\nviolence. Technical assistance shall include, but shall not be limited\n…

§ 459-f. Payment for services. Payments by a social services district\nto a residential program for victims of domestic violence for the costs\nof emergency shelter and services provided to a victim of domestic\nviolence at the daily reimbursement rate determined by the departme…

§ 459-g. Cooperation of an abuser not required as a condition of\neligibility for benefits or services. 1. Neither the state, a political\nsubdivision of the state, a public authority, nor any employee or agent\nthereof shall, in any way, condition eligibility or receipt of serv…

§ 459-h. Confidentiality. 1. The street address of any residential\nprogram for victims of domestic violence applying for funding pursuant\nto this article shall be confidential and may be disclosed only to\npersons designated by rules and regulations of the department.\n 2. All…

§ 460. Declaration of policy and statement of purpose. Residential\ncare programs for adults and children of the highest quality,\nefficiently produced and properly utilized at a reasonable cost, are a\nmatter of vital concern to the people of this state. In order to more\neffec…

§ 460-a. Certificates of incorporation. 1. Unless the written approval\nof the department shall have been endorsed on or annexed to a\ncertificate of incorporation, no such certificate shall hereafter be\nfiled which includes among its corporate purposes the care of destitute,\n…

§ 460-b. Operating certificate. 1. No facility subject to\ninspection and supervision by the department, except a facility operated\nby a state department or agency, or a facility which pursuant to law is\nlicensed or certified to operate by a state department or agency or by\na…

§ 460-c. Inspection and supervision. 1. Excepting state institutions\nfor the education and support of the blind, the deaf and the dumb,\nfacilities subject to the approval, visitation and inspection of the\nstate department of mental hygiene or the state commission of\ncorrecti…

§ 460-d. Enforcement powers. 1. The commissioner or any person\ndesignated by the commissioner may undertake an investigation of the\naffairs and management of any facility subject to the inspection and\nsupervision provision of this article, or of any person, corporation,\nsoci…

§ 460-e. Records and reports; confidentiality; information. 1. The\ndepartment shall require, collect and maintain such information, records\nor reports as it may determine to be necessary to further the purpose of\nthis article. Organizations and institutions subject to the ins…

§ 460-f. Penalties. Any person who intentionally violates any\nprovision of this article or regulations of the department relating to\ncertificates of incorporation, operating certificates or confidentiality\nof information shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.\n

§ 460-g. Construction. The provisions of this article shall not be\ndeemed or construed to alter, amend, repeal or otherwise modify the\nprovisions of article nineteen-G of the executive law, relating to\nsecure and non-secure detention facilities, article nineteen-H of the\nexe…

§ 460-h. Review of criminal history information concerning prospective\nemployees, consultants, assistants and volunteers of publicly-funded\nemergency shelters for families with children. 1. Every provider of\nservices to publicly-funded emergency shelters for families with\nch…

§ 461. Responsibility for standards. 1. The department shall\npromulgate and may alter or amend regulations effectuating the\nprovisions of this title, including but not limited to establishing\nfiscal, administrative, architectural, safety, nutritional and program\nstandards wh…

§ 461-a. Responsibility for inspection and supervision. 1. The\ndepartment shall be responsible for the inspection and supervision of\nall adult care facilities subject to the provisions of section four\nhundred sixty-c of this chapter; provided, however, that the department\nsh…

§ 461-b. Provisions related to establishment of adult care facilities.\n1. (a) Only a natural person or partnership composed only of natural\npersons, a not-for-profit corporation, a public corporation, a business\ncorporation other than a corporation whose shares are traded on …

§ 461-c. Resident care, services and charges. 1. Every operator of an\nadult care facility, except a shelter for adults, shall execute with\neach applicant for admission a written admission agreement, dated and\nsigned by the operator and the parties to be charged, which shall\n…

§ 461-d. Rights of residents in adult care facilities. 1. The\nprinciples enunciated in subdivision three hereof are declared to be the\npublic policy of the state and a copy of such statement of rights and\nresponsibilities shall be posted conspicuously in a public place in eac…

§ 461-e. Records and reports. 1. Every adult care facility shall\nmaintain, as public information available for public inspection under\nsuch conditions as the department shall prescribe, records containing\ncopies of the most recent inspection report pertaining to the facility\…

§ 461-f. Operation of facility in receivership. 1. As a means of\nprotecting the health, safety and welfare of the residents of an adult\ncare facility subject to inspection and supervision by the department,\nit may become necessary under certain circumstances to authorize the\…

§ 461-g. Termination of admission agreements. 1. No adult home,\nresidence for adults or enriched housing program which is subject to\ncertification and supervision of the department shall terminate the\nadmission agreement of any resident of such facility and involuntarily\ndis…

§ 461-h. Special proceeding for termination of adult home, residence\nfor adults and enriched housing program admission agreements. 1. (a) A\nspecial proceeding to terminate the admission agreement of a resident of\nan adult home, residence for adults or enriched housing program…

§ 461-i. Planning and development grants for enriched housing\nprograms. 1. The department shall, to the extent funds are available for\nsuch purpose, award planning and development grants to, and contract\nwith, lawfully approved enriched housing programs that qualify for such\…

§ 461-j. Family type homes for adults; special needs funds. 1. The\ncommissioner shall establish a procedure whereby payments shall be made\nto duly certified operators of family type homes for adults for the\npurpose of meeting one or more of certain special needs of persons\nr…

* § 461-k. Services for non-residents in certain adult care\nfacilities. 1. (a) "Services for non-residents in adult homes,\nresidences for adults and enriched housing programs" shall mean an\norganized program of services which the facility is authorized to\nprovide to resident…

§ 461-l. Assisted living program. 1. Definitions. As used in this\nsection, the following words shall have the following meanings:\n (a) "Assisted living program" means an entity or entities with\nidentical ownership, which are approved to operate pursuant to\nsubdivision three …

§ 461-m. Death and felony crime reporting. The operator of an adult\nhome, enriched housing program or residence for adults shall have an\naffirmative duty to report any death, or attempted suicide of a resident\nto the department of health within twenty-four hours of its occurr…

§ 461-o. Complaint investigation procedures. The department shall\nestablish procedures governing the receipt and investigation of\ncomplaints regarding the care afforded to residents of adult care\nfacilities consistent with article eleven of this chapter, as\napplicable. Such …

§ 461-p. Adult care facilities training program. The department may,\nwithin the amounts as appropriated for such purpose, establish an adult\ncare facility training program that shall assist in the development of\ntraining materials and/or the provision of staff training activi…

§ 461-q. Temperature standards in adult homes, enriched housing\nprograms and residences for adults. The commissioner of health shall\npromulgate rules and regulations with respect to an allowable\ntemperature in all areas occupied by residents of an adult home,\nenriched housin…

§ 461-r. Food services. 1. Food services in adult care facilities\nshall be provided in a manner that respects the dietary needs of the\nresidents in relation to health conditions, food allergies and dietary\nintolerances, religious and ethnic mandates, and that allows for a\nre…

§ 461-s. Enhancing the quality of adult living program for adult care\nfacilities. 1. (a) The commissioner of health shall establish the\nenhanced quality of adult living program (referred to in this section as\nthe "EQUAL program" or the "program") for adult care facilities. Th…

§ 461-t. Review of criminal history information concerning prospective\ndirect care employees. Every adult home, enriched housing program and\nresidence for adults shall conduct a criminal history record check of\nprospective direct care employees utilizing the procedures and st…

§ 461-u. Personal caregiving visitors for residents of adult care\nfacilities during public health emergencies. 1. As used in this section,\nthe following terms have the following meanings:\n (a) "personal caregiving visitor" means a family member, close friend,\nor legal guardi…

§ 462. Responsibility for standards. 1. (a) The office of children and\nfamily services shall promulgate regulations concerning standards of\ncare and treatment and fiscal, administrative, nutritional,\narchitectural and safety standards, consistent with the provisions of\nsecti…

§ 462-a. Responsibility for inspection and supervision. 1. The office\nof children and family services shall inspect and supervise secure and\nnon-secure detention facilities and those office of children and family\nservices residential facilities authorized by article nineteen-…