Title SOS, Social Services

§ 458-a. Definitions. As used in this title: 1. "Child" shall mean a person under the age of twenty-one years whose custody, care and custody, or custody and guardianship have been committed to a social services official prior to such person's eighteenth birthday pursuant to sec…

§ 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 reimbursable kinship guardianship assistance payments are made under this title is eligible for medical assistance under title XIX of the federal social security act. 2. In addition, a social services official…

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

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

§ 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, the term "family support services programs" shall mean a program established pursuant to this title to provide community-based supportive services to children and families with the goal of (i) preventing a chil…

§ 458-n. Funding for family support services programs. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, to the extent that funds are available for such purpose and specifically appropriated therefor, the office of children and family services shall distribute fundi…

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

§ 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 accordance with section one hundred thirty-one-u of this chapter and the regulations of the office of children and family services, a social services district shall offer and provide necessary and available emerg…

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

§ 459-d. Reporting requirements. The commissioner shall submit a report prior to December fifteenth, nineteen hundred eighty-eight and annually thereafter to the governor and the legislature regarding the implementation of this article. Such report shall include: 1. the number o…

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 460-b. Operating certificate. 1. No facility subject to inspection and supervision by the department, except a facility operated by a state department or agency, or a facility which pursuant to law is licensed or certified to operate by a state department or agency or by an au…

§ 460-c. Inspection and supervision. 1. Excepting state institutions for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and the dumb, facilities subject to the approval, visitation and inspection of the state department of mental hygiene or the state commission of correction, …

§ 460-d. Enforcement powers. 1. The commissioner or any person designated by the commissioner may undertake an investigation of the affairs and management of any facility subject to the inspection and supervision provision of this article, or of any person, corporation, society,…

§ 460-e. Records and reports; confidentiality; information. 1. The department shall require, collect and maintain such information, records or reports as it may determine to be necessary to further the purpose of this article. Organizations and institutions subject to the inspec…

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

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

§ 460-h. Review of criminal history information concerning prospective employees, consultants, assistants and volunteers of publicly-funded emergency shelters for families with children. 1. Every provider of services to publicly-funded emergency shelters for families with childr…

§ 461. Responsibility for standards. 1. The department shall promulgate and may alter or amend regulations effectuating the provisions of this title, including but not limited to establishing fiscal, administrative, architectural, safety, nutritional and program standards which …

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

§ 461-b. Provisions related to establishment of adult care facilities. 1. (a) Only a natural person or partnership composed only of natural persons, a not-for-profit corporation, a public corporation, a business corporation other than a corporation whose shares are traded on a n…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 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 facilities. 1. (a) "Services for non-residents in adult homes, residences for adults and enriched housing programs" shall mean an organized program of services which the facility is authorized to provide to residents of…

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

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

§ 461-o. Complaint investigation procedures. The department shall establish procedures governing the receipt and investigation of complaints regarding the care afforded to residents of adult care facilities consistent with article eleven of this chapter, as applicable. Such proc…

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

§ 461-q. Temperature standards in adult homes, enriched housing programs and residences for adults. The commissioner of health shall promulgate rules and regulations with respect to an allowable temperature in all areas occupied by residents of an adult home, enriched housing pr…

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

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

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

§ 461-u. Personal caregiving visitors for residents of adult care facilities during public health emergencies. 1. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "personal caregiving visitor" means a family member, close friend, or legal guardian of…

§ 462. Responsibility for standards. 1. (a) The office of children and family services shall promulgate regulations concerning standards of care and treatment and fiscal, administrative, nutritional, architectural and safety standards, consistent with the provisions of section t…

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