2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2550 - Responsibilities of Lead Agency.

§  2550.  Responsibilities  of  lead  agency.  1.  The  lead agency is
responsible for the general administration and supervision  of  programs
and activities receiving assistance under this title, and the monitoring
of  programs  and  activities used by the state to carry out this title,
whether or not such programs or activities are receiving assistance made
available under this title, to ensure that the state complies  with  the
provisions of this title.
2. In meeting the requirements of subdivision one of this section, the
lead  agency  shall  adopt  and  use proper methods of administering the
early intervention program, including:
(a) establishing standards for evaluators,  service  coordinators  and
providers of early intervention services;
(b)  approving,  and  periodically  re-approving  evaluators,  service
coordinators and providers  of  early  intervention  services  who  meet
department  standards;  provided however that the department may require
that approved evaluators, service coordinators and  providers  of  early
intervention services enter into agreements with the department in order
to   conduct   evaluations  or  render  service  coordination  or  early
intervention services in the early intervention program. Such agreements
shall set forth  the  terms  and  conditions  of  participation  in  the
program.  If  the  department  requires  that  such providers enter into
agreements  with  the  department  for  participation  in  the  program,
"approval" or "approved" as used in this title shall mean a provider who
is  approved by the department in accordance with department regulations
and has entered into an agreement with the department for the  provision
of evaluations, service coordination or early intervention services. The
department  shall  use  best  efforts to ensure provider capacity in the
early intervention program.
(c) monitoring of agencies, institutions and organizations under  this
title  and  agencies,  institutions  and  organizations  providing early
intervention services which are under the jurisdiction of a state  early
intervention service agency;
(d)  enforcing  any  obligations  imposed on those agencies under this
title or Part H of the federal individuals with  disabilities  education
act and its regulations;
(e)  providing  training  and  technical assistance to those agencies,
institutions and organizations, including initial and  ongoing  training
and  technical  assistance  to  municipalities  to  help  enable them to
identify, locate and evaluate eligible children, develop  IFSPs,  ensure
the  provision  of  appropriate early intervention services, promote the
development of new services, where there is a demonstrated need for such
services and afford procedural safeguards to infants  and  toddlers  and
their families;
(f)  correcting  deficiencies  that are identified through monitoring;
and
(g) in monitoring early intervention services, the commissioner  shall
provide   municipalities  with  the  results  of  any  review  of  early
intervention services undertaken and shall  provide  the  municipalities
with the opportunity to comment thereon.
3.  The  commissioner,  through  a  comprehensive  system of personnel
development, shall promote the availability of  qualified  personnel  to
provide evaluations and early intervention services to eligible children
and their families.