2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 1 - Care and Protection of Children › 372-H - Reporting on Post Adoption Services.

§  372-h.  Reporting  on  post  adoption  services.  1.  The office of
children and family services shall place information on its  website  in
English,  French,  Polish, and the ten most common non-English languages
spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in the  state  of
New  York,  based  on  United States census data regarding post adoption
services funded by  the  office.  The  office  shall  work  with  social
services  districts  to  place  information,  to  the  extent that it is
available, on each social services district website in English,  French,
Polish,  and  the  ten  most  common  non-English  languages  spoken  by
individuals with limited English proficiency in the state of  New  York,
based  on  United  States  census  data regarding post adoption services
funded by the social services district. Authorized agencies shall notify
a foster parent, who has expressed interest in adopting a foster  child,
of  such  websites  listing  potentially  eligible services for a foster
child, upon the adoption of such foster child.
2. The office of  children  and  family  services  shall  collect  and
compile, by social services district:
(a)  the following information on post adoption services funded by the
office:
(i) the number of children and families served; and
(ii) the type of services provided; and
(b) the number of families receiving preventive  services  where  post
adoption  services was identified as a necessary and appropriate service
as part of the family assessment service plan held pursuant  to  section
four hundred nine-e of this article and the status of such services.
3.  The  office  of children and family services shall compile, to the
extent that such information is  available  electronically  through  the
state  automated  child  welfare  information system, the following non-
identifying information by social services district:
(a) the number of children entering foster care  that  had  previously
been adopted;
(b)  the  number  of  families  receiving preventive services where at
least one child in the household had previously been adopted; and
(c) for the children and families identified in paragraphs (a) and (b)
of this subdivision, the types  of  services,  including  post  adoption
services,  identified  as necessary and appropriate for the child or the
members of the child's family as part of the family  assessment  service
plan  held  pursuant  to section four hundred nine-e of this article and
the status of such services.
4. (a) The office of children and family services  shall  submit,  and
publish on its website, an annual report to the speaker of the assembly,
the temporary president of the senate and the chairpersons of the senate
and  assembly  children  and  families committees starting no later than
September first, two thousand fifteen. Such report  shall  include  data
and  information  required  by  subdivision  two of this section for the
preceding year, to the extent that such information  is  available,  and
any  other  information the office of children and family services deems
appropriate. The office of children and family services  shall  indicate
the  extent  to  which  the  information  collected  reflects  the total
population described in subdivision two of this  section,  and  identify
any impediments to collecting such information.
(b)  Beginning  September  first,  two  thousand seventeen, the annual
report required by paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall  be  expanded
to  include  data  and information required by subdivision three of this
section for the preceding year, to the extent that such  information  is
available,  and  any other information the office of children and family
services deems appropriate.