2023 New York Laws › ELD - Elder › Article 2 - Programs for the Elderly › Title 1 - State Office for the Aging › 207 - Foster Grandparents Program for Vulnerable Infants and Children.

§   207.  Foster  grandparents  program  for  vulnerable  infants  and
children.  1. Definitions. For purposes of this  section  the  following
terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) "Qualified area agencies on aging" shall mean those agencies which
operate  a foster grandparent program for the care of vulnerable infants
and children and for the assistance of high risk mothers.
(b) "Foster grandparents program"  shall  mean  those  activities  for
which  grants may be provided pursuant to subdivision six of section two
hundred three of this title, and shall include, but not be  limited  to,
(1)  visiting  participating  hospitals or other interim care facilities
for a specified number of hours and providing care, love and stimulation
to one or more vulnerable infants and children; and  (2)  visiting  high
risk  mothers in their homes for a specified number of hours in order to
assist such mothers in developing parenting skills and  in  providing  a
safe and suitable home for their children.
(c)  "Vulnerable  infants and children" shall mean infants or children
who reside in hospitals or other  interim  care  facilities  because  no
suitable foster home or other appropriate placement is available.
(d)  "High  risk  mothers"  shall mean single young women for whom the
teaching of parenting skills  is  necessary  either  to  prevent  family
breakdown or to enable them to assume responsibility for their own child
or children who are in or awaiting foster care.
2.  The  director, in consultation with the commissioner of the office
of children and family services,  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed,
within  appropriations  which are available therefor, to award grants to
qualified area agencies on aging to operate foster grandparent  programs
for  the  care of vulnerable infants and children and for the assistance
of high risk mothers.
3. The duties of the director shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) the selection of qualified  area  agencies  on  aging  to  receive
grants  for the operation of foster grandparent programs for the care of
vulnerable infants and children and for  the  assistance  of  high  risk
mothers, which programs have been approved pursuant to this subdivision.
Applications  for  such grants shall demonstrate to the extent possible:
the need within the jurisdiction of the qualified area agency to provide
services to infants  and  children  left  in  hospitals  beyond  medical
necessity  and  the  need  to  provide  services to infants and children
placed in interim care facilities, the  experience  of  such  agency  in
providing  such services to this or related populations, the capacity of
such agency in  providing  such  services  to  effectively  operate  and
administer  such  program, the capacity of such agency to coordinate its
services with hospitals which provide social work  counseling  and  home
visit assessments by social work staff to high risk mothers; and
(b)  the  reviewing  of  foster  grandparent  programs for the care of
vulnerable infants and children and for  the  assistance  of  high  risk
mothers  conducted  by qualified area agencies on aging and the approval
of  such  programs  for  funding  pursuant  to  paragraph  (a)  of  this
subdivision.
4. The director may promulgate such rules and regulations as he or she
deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this section.