2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 10-A - William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund Act › 481-E - William B. Hoyt Memorial Children and Family Trust Fund; Awarding of Grants.

§  481-e.  William  B.  Hoyt  Memorial children and family trust fund;
awarding of grants. 1. The commissioner is hereby  authorized  to  issue
grants  from funds credited to the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and
family trust fund as provided in section four  hundred  eighty-one-f  of
this  article  to public agencies or not-for-profit corporations for the
purpose of establishing or extending any or all of the following:
(a) primary prevention programs;
(b) secondary prevention programs;
(c) programs which provide services to  victims  of  family  violence,
such  as  establishing  temporary shelters and other emergency services;
programs which provide or facilitate counseling,  or  other  appropriate
follow-up services to victims and their family or household members; and
any  other  program deemed helpful in the treatment of victims of family
violence.
2. (a) Funds shall be awarded in the following manner:  forty  percent
for  local  child  abuse  prevention  or  family  resource  and  support
programs, forty  percent  for  local  domestic  violence  prevention  or
service  programs  and  twenty  percent for regional or statewide family
violence prevention programs; provided,  however,  that  any  unexpended
portion  of such twenty percent as allocated shall be made available for
local family violence prevention programs and provided further, however,
that in determining the eligibility of any regional or statewide  family
violence  prevention  program or of any local family violence prevention
program for any part of such unexpended portion, the commissioner  shall
give  first  consideration  to  those  programs which combine both child
abuse prevention and domestic violence prevention.
(b) For a program which combines child abuse prevention  and  domestic
violence  prevention, the commissioner shall predetermine, to the extent
feasible, the percentage of concentration for each within  such  program
and  shall apportion the total amount awarded between such forty percent
allocation in the same proportion.
3. No moneys from  the  fund  established  pursuant  to  section  four
hundred  eighty-one-f  of  this  article  shall  be granted for services
mandated  under  this   chapter.   Funds   awarded   to   not-for-profit
corporations   or   public   agencies  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
subdivision one of this section shall not  be  used  to  supplant  other
federal, state or local funds.
4.  The  commissioner,  with  the  advice  and  recommendations of the
William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund advisory  board,
shall  issue  requests for proposals and specify methods to evaluate the
effectiveness of proposed programs. Such evaluation  shall  include  but
not be limited to the following:
(a)  appropriate  accounting and fiscal control procedures which shall
include the filing of an annual financial statement by each provider  so
as  to  ensure the proper disbursement and accounting for funds received
by public agencies and not-for-profit corporations for services; and
(b) appropriate written records regarding the  population  served  and
type and extent of services rendered by the provider; and
(c)  confidentiality standards in conformance with appropriate federal
and state standards so as to ensure the confidentiality  of  records  of
persons receiving services; and
(d)  nature  and  quality  of  services  provided and impacts upon the
populations and communities served.
5. The commissioner shall solicit and shall select proposals  for  the
provision  of  services funded pursuant to this act. Public agencies and
not-for-profit  corporations  shall  be   eligible   for   purposes   of
application  for grants provided for herein and subject to any rules and
regulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision four of this section.
6. The commissioner, with the advice of the William B.  Hoyt  Memorial
children  and  family  trust  fund  advisory  board, shall publicize the
availability of funds to be used  for  purposes  of  this  section.  The
commissioner  shall request, on prescribed forms, information determined
to be necessary and relevant for the evaluation of each application. The
commissioner  may  solicit  comments  on the applications from concerned
individuals  and  agencies.  Applications  for  local  grants  shall  be
submitted  to the local commissioner of social services and to the local
youth bureau in the locality in  which  the  program  will  operate  and
applicants  for  local  grants shall solicit comments on the application
from such local commissioner of social services  and  such  local  youth
bureau  prior  to  submitting  such  application  to  the  commissioner.
Applicants shall inform the local commissioner of  social  services  and
the  local  youth bureau that their comments upon the application may be
submitted either to the applicant or to the commissioner or to both. The
commissioner shall give full consideration to any such comments received
within twenty-one days after the application deadline and  shall  review
the applications in relation to relevant local plans before approving or
disapproving  such applications. The commissioner shall inform the local
commissioner of social services and the local youth bureau of the  final
disposition of the applications. No grant award shall be for a period in
excess  of  twelve  months  unless renewed by the commissioner, with the
advice of the advisory board. The  initial  grant  and  the  first  year
renewal,  if  any,  shall  not exceed one hundred percent of the cost of
providing the service. The third year grant, if any,  shall  not  exceed
seventy-five percent of the initial grant. The fourth year grant and any
grant  thereafter, if any, shall not exceed fifty percent of the initial
grant. No program shall receive funding after the fourth year unless the
commissioner, annually, finds  that  the  program  effectively  prevents
family  violence  or  provides  a necessary service to victims of family
violence.
7. Pursuant to subdivision one of this section, the commissioner shall
ensure  that  grants  are  awarded  evenly   across   the   state   with
consideration  given to geographic areas with the greatest need and that
priority is given to programs:
(a) which are innovative; or
(b) of demonstrated effectiveness; and/or
(c) illustrates the capacity to coordinate with established  community
programs; and/or
(d)   which   can   demonstrate   a  potential  for  future  financial
self-sufficiency.
8. The commissioner with the advice and recommendations of the William
B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust  fund  advisory  board  shall
submit  a  report  prior  to  the fifteenth day of December beginning in
nineteen hundred eighty-five and annually thereafter to the governor and
the legislature regarding  the  implementation  and  evaluation  of  the
effectiveness  of  prevention  and  treatment services related to family
violence. Prior to submitting such  reports  to  the  governor  and  the
legislature,  the commissioner shall permit the William B. Hoyt Memorial
children and family trust fund advisory board to review and comment upon
such reports. Such report shall include:
(a) the number of persons estimated to have been assisted in  programs
covered by this section;
(b)  the  number,  recipients and amounts of grants to public agencies
and not-for-profit corporations;
(c) the amount of public and private funds used for approved  programs
by service type;
(d) the amount of funds used for the administration of such services;
(e)  a  description of the nature and quality of services provided and
the impact  upon  the  populations  and  communities  served  and  their
potential for being replicated elsewhere;
(f)  a description of how the moneys of the fund collected pursuant to
section six hundred thirty-g of the tax law  were  utilized  during  the
preceding calendar year, including information concerning:
(i)  the  amount of money disbursed from the fund and the distribution
process used for such disbursements;
(ii) recipients of the expenses from the fund;
(iii) the amount allotted to each;
(iv) the purposes for which such distributions were granted; and
(v) a summary financial plan  for  such  monies  which  shall  include
estimates  of  all  receipts  and  all disbursements for the current and
succeeding fiscal years; and
(g) all such other matters as may be necessary to inform the  governor
and  the  legislature regarding the implementation and evaluation of the
effectiveness of programs covered by this section  and  the  success  of
such programs in accomplishing the intent of the legislature.