2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 12 - Family Support Services Programs › 458-N - Funding for Family Support Services Programs.

§   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  funding  to the highest need municipality which shall mean a
county or a city with a population of one million or  more  to  contract
with  not-for-profit  corporations  to  operate  family support services
programs in accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  title  and  the
specific program model requirements issued by the office.
2.  Notwithstanding  any  other provision of law to the contrary, when
determining the highest need municipality pursuant to this  subdivision,
the   office  may  consider  factors  that  may  include,  but  are  not
necessarily limited to:
(a) the total amount of available funding and the  amount  of  funding
required  for  family  support  services programs to meet the objectives
outlined in section four hundred fifty-eight-m of this title;
(b) relevant, available  statistics  regarding  each  municipality,  a
group  of  two  or  more  municipalities  that  jointly seek to fund and
administer  a  family  support  services  program  in  accordance   with
subdivision  four of this section which may include, but not necessarily
be limited to:
(i) the availability of services within such municipality  to  prevent
or  reduce  detention  or  residential  placement  of  youth pursuant to
article seven of the family court act; and
(ii) relative to the youth population of such municipality:
(1) the number of petitions filed pursuant to  article  seven  of  the
family court act; or
(2)  the  number  of  placements  of  youth  into  residential care or
detention  pursuant  to  article  seven  of  the  family  court  act  as
applicable, over the last five years;
(c)  any reported performance outcomes reported to the office pursuant
to subdivision three  of  this  section  for  programs  that  previously
received funding pursuant to this title; or
(d) other appropriate factors as determined by the office.
3.  Municipalities  receiving funding under this title shall report to
the office of children and family services, in the form and  manner  and
at  such  times as determined by the office, on the performance outcomes
of any family support service program located within such municipalities
that receives funding under this title.
4. Two or more  eligible  municipalities  within  a  close  geographic
within  a  close  geographic  proximity  to each other may enter into an
agreement to jointly seek funding  for  and  jointly  administer  family
support  services programs to service eligible youth and families within
such municipalities in accordance with  this  section.  Such  agreements
shall  include provisions for the proportionate cost to be borne by each
municipality and for the manner  of  employment  of  personnel  and  may
provide  that  a  fiscal  officer  of one such municipality shall be the
custodian of the moneys made available for expenditure for such purposes
by all such  municipalities  and  that  such  fiscal  officer  may  make
payments  therefrom  upon  audit  of  the  appropriate  auditing body or
officer of his or her municipality.  In  making  claims  for  state  aid
pursuant  to  section,  each  such  municipality  shall  claim  for  its
proportionate share of the total joint expenditures  so  made.  However,
where it is provided that there shall be a disbursing municipality, such
disbursing   municipality  shall  claim  for  the  total  joint  program
expenditures  so  made  and  shall  disburse  such  state  aid  to  each
participating   municipality  based  upon  the  proportionate  share  of
expenditures so made.
5. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions two, three and  four
of  this  section, a municipality, consistent with its approved plan for
supervision and treatment services for juveniles  program,  may  utilize
any  funding  available  to  such  municipality pursuant to section five
hundred  twenty-nine-b  of  the  executive  law  to  fund family support
services programs pursuant to this title.