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2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 4-B - Services; Pregnant Adolescents › 409-K - Case Plan and Service Record.

§  409-k.  Case  plan  and  service  record.  1.  With respect to each
individual who is  identified  as  requiring  case  management  services
pursuant  to  this  title,  the  social  services district shall, within
thirty days of such identification, perform or have performed an initial
joint  assessment  with  the  individual,  and   other   persons   where
appropriate,  for the purpose of identifying those problems that have an
impact on  family  stability  and  hinder  the  potential  for  economic
independence. A social services district shall prior to implementing the
provisions  of  this  title  submit a plan for a service case management
system to the commissioner for approval.
2. Upon completion of the assessment provided in  subdivision  one  of
this  section,  the social services district shall, in consultation with
the  individual,  establish  and  maintain  or  have   established   and
maintained  a  case  plan  and  service  record  prescribed  pursuant to
regulations  of  the  department  which  shall  include  at  least   the
following:
(a)  identification  of  short  term  and  long range goals which will
ameliorate the problems indicated in subdivision one  of  this  section.
Such  identification  shall  also include an estimate of the time period
necessary to meet these goals;
(b) identification of services needed by the client, and a description
of the available resources in the community to meet identified needs; if
services are not available the record should reflect such;
(c) documentation of the arrangements made for  the  referral  of  the
client to service providers;
(d)  listing  of all services rendered, both direct and those provided
by other public and private agencies in the community;
(e) follow-up action  taken  to  assure  clients  are  in  receipt  of
services,  and  any  actions taken to remove any existing barriers which
impede the maximum efficiency of service delivery; and
(f) recordation of the types, cost and auspices of services provided.
3. The case plan and service record  shall  be  reviewed  and  may  be
revised,  in  consultation  with the individual, at least once every six
months after the plan and record have been prepared. Such  review  shall
include  an evaluation of the effectiveness of services rendered and any
necessary revisions in goals  or  planned  services  as  they  meet  the
objectives  indicated  in  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  two  of this
section.
4. The case plan and service record shall include information for  the
purpose  of  obtaining  information  regarding services rendered and the
cost of such services based on assessed values or the value of  services
rendered,  where  no  fees  are  charged  as  in other publicly financed
programs together with such other information  as  may  be  required  by
rules and regulations of the department.
5.  The  department  is authorized and directed to make such rules and
regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this title.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 4-B - Services; Pregnant Adolescents › 409-L - Advisory Board.

§ 409-l. Advisory board. An advisory board shall be established by the
  commissioner to assist in the development and implementation of the case
  management  provisions.  It  will be the responsibility of this board to
  assist in the development of various service models  that  local  social
  services   districts   shall   employ,  assist  in  the  formulation  of
  appropriate procedures for evaluating such case management services, and
  determine the fiscal impact of such services as defined in section  four
  hundred  nine-j of this title.  Appointments to the advisory board shall
  be obtained from public and private organizations providing teenage  and
  child welfare services.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 4-B - Services; Pregnant Adolescents › 409-M - Reports.

§ 409-m. Reports. 1.  The commissioner shall prepare, for inclusion in
  the  annual  report  required by subdivision (d) of section seventeen of
  this chapter to be filed with the governor and the legislature prior  to
  December  fifteenth  of each year, a progress report on the planning and
  implementation of the provisions of this title.
2. The report shall  contain,  but  not  be  limited  to,  information
  reported statewide and by districts, the number of individuals certified
  as  eligible  for services under this title, and those for whom services
  were rendered and expenditures made for  services  identified  by  type,
  provider,  and  funding  source. Such report shall also include progress
  made in implementing  the  provisions  of  this  title  with  particular
  reference  to  efforts  made  to  insure  the  effectiveness of the case
  management provisions.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 4-B - Services; Pregnant Adolescents › 409-N - Implementation.

§  409-n.  Implementation.  1.  The  department  shall  plan  for  the
  implementation of the services case management system during the  period
  from  the  first  day  of  July,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-four  to the
  thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred eighty-five.
2. Subject to the appropriation of funds, the provisions of this title
  shall be implemented from the first day  of  October,  nineteen  hundred
  eighty-five  in  a select number of representative pilot social services
  districts which shall be designated by the commissioner in  consultation
  with   the  advisory  board  established  pursuant  to  this  title,  in
  communities with a higher than state average  teen  population  applying
  for or receiving public assistance.
3.  Subject  to  the appropriation of funds, social services districts
  which  had  not  implemented  the  provisions  of  this  title  by   the
  thirty-first  day  of  March,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-seven  shall be
  required to implement the provisions of this  title  during  the  period
  April  first,  nineteen hundred eighty-seven through March thirty-first,
  nineteen hundred ninety. The social services districts  subject  to  the
  provisions  of this subdivision shall implement this title in accordance
  with a schedule to be developed by  the  department  which  will  ensure
  statewide  implementation  by  the  thirty-first  day of March, nineteen
  hundred eighty-eight.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5 - Day Care for Certain Children › 410-A - Day Care; When Department to Furnish.

§  410-a.  Day  care;  when  department  to  furnish. Any inconsistent
  provision of law notwithstanding, if and so long as  federal  funds  are
  available  for  the  care  provided  pursuant  to the provisions of this
  section, and to the extent of such funds and state funds appropriated or
  made available therefor, the department shall be authorized  to  provide
  day  care,  through  appropriate arrangements and cooperative agreements
  with the state departments of education  and  agriculture  and  markets,
  approved  by  the  director of the budget, in public schools operated by
  school districts  and  in  facilities  operated  by  or  for  the  state
  department  of  agriculture  and  markets for children who are receiving
  family assistance or who are former or    potential recipients  of  such
  aid in accordance with the regulations of the department, including only
  such  children  who  are in pre-kindergarten programs of such schools or
  who are children of migrant workers.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5 - Day Care for Certain Children › 410-B - Federal Grants.

§  410-b.  Federal grants.  1.  The department of taxation and finance
  is authorized to accept and receive  from  the  federal  government  any
  moneys which the federal government shall offer to the state for or with
  respect  to the construction, maintenance or operation of facilities for
  day care for children, under or pursuant to any federal  law  heretofore
  or hereafter enacted authorizing grants to the state for such purpose or
  similar  purposes,  including payments to political subdivisions of, and
  any public agencies in the state.
2.   The  department  of  social  welfare  is  hereby  designated  and
  empowered  to  act  as  the  agent  of  the  state  in  carrying out the
  provisions of any such  federal  law  with  respect  to  such  day  care
  facilities in this state.
3.   Any and all such grants and moneys awarded for assistance to this
  state under or pursuant  to  any  federal  law  shall  be  accepted  and
  received  by the department of taxation and finance as custodian thereof
  and such moneys, so received, shall be deposited by such  department  of
  taxation  and  finance  in  a  special  fund  or funds and shall be used
  exclusively for the purposes of any such federal law.  Such moneys shall
  be paid from such fund  or  funds  on  the  audit  and  warrant  of  the
  comptroller  upon  vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner of
  welfare.
4.   Any federal funds made  available  to  the  state  for  day  care
  facilities shall be retained by the state.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5 - Day Care for Certain Children › 410-CC - Start Up Grants for Child Day Care.

§  410-cc.  Start up grants for child day care. The commissioner shall
  provide funds to start up  grants  to  not-for-profit  organizations  or
  corporations  for  the  development of new or expanded all day child day
  care programs including costs related to planning, renting,  renovating,
  operating,  and  purchasing  equipment. The commissioner shall establish
  guidelines including, but not limited to, allowable costs, and  criteria
  for  eligibility  for  grants  giving preference to those child day care
  providers who will, to the maximum extent feasible, target  services  to
  households  having  incomes  up  to  two  hundred percent of the federal
  poverty standard.  The commissioner shall publicize the availability  of
  funds.  No  awards  shall  be  granted  which exceed twenty-five hundred
  dollars for a new family day care provider or new group family day  care
  provider,  and  one  hundred  thousand  dollars for a new child day care
  center. Child care resource and referral agencies may receive family day
  care start up grants not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per
  new provider if the agency trains such new family provider  and  thereby
  expands  the  supply  of  family day care programs in the community. The
  commissioner shall  give  preference  to  those  communities  which  are
  significantly  underserved  by  existing  programs and to those programs
  which and those providers who will serve infants under two years of age.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-A - Youth Facilities Improvement Act › 410-D - Short Title: Policy and Purposes of Title.

§ 410-d.  Short title: policy and purposes of title.  This title shall
  be  known,  and  may  be cited and referred to, as the "Youth Facilities
  Improvement Act".
There is  a  serious  shortage  throughout  the  state  of  facilities
  suitable for use for the care of children especially those of pre-school
  age and primary school age whose parents are unable to provide such care
  for  all or a substantial part of the day or post-school day.  A similar
  shortage of residential child care facilities also exists.  Existing day
  care and residential child care facilities  are  overcrowded  with  long
  waiting  lists.    Many such facilities are so located that they are not
  accessible to families in  need  of  such  services.    The  absence  of
  adequate  day  care and residential child care facilities is contrary to
  the interest of the people of the state, is detrimental  to  the  health
  and  welfare  of  the  child  and  his  parents and prevents the gainful
  employment of persons, who are otherwise qualified, because of the  need
  to provide such care in their home.
It is the purpose of this article to encourage the timely construction
  and equipment of such facilities with mortgage loan participation by the
  New York state housing finance agency.  The provision of such facilities
  is  hereby declared to be a public purpose which it is the policy of the
  state to encourage.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-A - Youth Facilities Improvement Act › 410-G - Mortgage Loans.

§  410-g.   Mortgage loans.  1.  Any eligible borrower may, subject to
  the approval of the commissioner,  borrow  funds  from  the  agency  and
  secure  the  repayment  thereof by bond or note and mortgage which shall
  contain such  terms  and  conditions  as  may  be  deemed  necessary  or
  desirable  by the agency or required by any agreement between the agency
  and the  holders  of  its  notes  and  bonds,  including  the  right  to
  assignment  of  rates  and  charges and entry into possession in case of
  default, but the operation of such project, in the event of such  entry,
  shall be subject to the regulations of the commissioner.
2.    The  agency  may  make  contracts  to  make loans to an eligible
  borrower in an amount not to exceed the total project cost.    Any  such
  loan  shall  be  secured  by  a  first  mortgage  lien upon all the real
  property and improvements of which  the  project  consists  and  may  be
  secured  by  such  a lien upon other real property owned by the eligible
  borrower, and upon  all  fixtures  and  articles  of  personal  property
  attached to or used in connection with the operation of the project.
3.  Any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding,
  mortgages  of  an  eligible  borrower  shall be exempt from the mortgage
  recording taxes imposed by article eleven of the tax law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-A - Youth Facilities Improvement Act › 410-H - Conditions and Security for Loans.

§ 410-h.  Conditions and security for loans.  No loan shall be made by
  the  agency  to an eligible borrower until the commissioner has approved
  the project and finds that:
1.  The eligible borrower has been approved by  the  commissioner  and
  complied with all the provisions of this title;
2.    The  plans and specifications conform to the requirements of all
  laws and regulations applicable thereto and assure adequate light,  air,
  sanitation and fire protection and are satisfactory to him;
3.    The  estimated revenue of the project or from other funds of the
  eligible borrower pledged, assigned or otherwise to be made available to
  the agency will be sufficient to cover all probable costs  of  operation
  and maintenance, of fixed charges and such reserves as may be authorized
  by the commissioner or required by the agency;
4.    Provision  has  been  made  for the purpose of providing for the
  payment of the difference between the estimated  project  cost  and  the
  mortgage  loan; and in the event the final project cost shall exceed the
  estimated project cost, the difference between such final  project  cost
  and the mortgage loan;
5.    The  eligible  borrower  has entered into a regulatory agreement
  pursuant to section four hundred ten-f of this title.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-A - Youth Facilities Improvement Act › 410-I - Rates and Admission of Children.

§  410-i.   Rates and admission of children.  1.  An eligible borrower
  shall, with the approval of the commissioner, fix a schedule of rates to
  be charged parents, guardians or other persons having legal  custody  of
  the  child and to social services officials or other authorized agencies
  for the facilities  and  services  provided  by  the  eligible  borrower
  pursuant  to  this title.  The commissioner upon his own motion, or upon
  application by the eligible borrower or lienholder may vary  the  amount
  of  such  charge  from  time  to time so as to secure, together with all
  other income of the eligible borrower  pledged,  assigned  or  otherwise
  made  available  to  the  agency,  sufficient  income  to  meet,  within
  reasonable limits, all necessary payments by the said eligible  borrower
  of all expenses, including fixed charges, sinking funds and reserves.
2.    The  facilities  and  services  to  be  provided by the eligible
  borrower pursuant to this title shall be available to  all  children  in
  need thereof.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-A - Youth Facilities Improvement Act › 410-J - Transfer of Real Property.

§  410-j.  Transfer of real property.  Notwithstanding any requirement
  of law to the contrary or any provision of any general, special or local
  law, charter  or  ordinance,  every  executor,  administrator,  trustee,
  guardian  or  other  person holding trust funds or acting in a fiduciary
  capacity, unless the instrument under which  such  fiduciary  is  acting
  expressly  forbids, and the state, its subdivisions, municipalities, all
  other public bodies, all  public  officers,  persons,  partnerships  and
  corporations owning or holding any real property, may grant, sell, lease
  or  otherwise  transfer any such real property or interest therein to an
  eligible borrower and receive and hold any cash,  exchange  therefor  by
  such  an  eligible borrower and may execute such instruments and do such
  acts as may be deemed necessary or desirable by them or it  and  by  the
  eligible  borrower  in  connection  with  a project or projects and such
  sale, lease or transfer may be made without public auction  or  bidding;
  providing,  however,  that  where  such real property is within an urban
  renewal area the disposition thereof shall be  in  accordance  with  the
  provisions  of  paragraph (d) of subdivision two of section five hundred
  seven of the general municipal law.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-A - Youth Facilities Improvement Act › 410-L - Foreclosures and Judgments.

§  410-l.   Foreclosures and judgments.  1.  In any foreclosure action
  the commissioner shall be made a party defendant.   He  shall  take  all
  steps  necessary  to  protect the interests of the public therein and no
  costs shall be awarded against him.  Foreclosures shall not  be  decreed
  unless  the  court  to which application is made shall be satisfied that
  the interests of the lienholder or holders cannot be adequately  assured
  except  by  the sale of the property.  In any such proceeding, the court
  shall be authorized to appoint  the  commissioner  as  receiver  of  the
  property, or to grant such other and further relief as may be reasonable
  and proper.
2.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, wherever
  it shall appear that the agency shall have loaned on a mortgage which is
  a  first  lien  upon  any  such property, such agency shall have all the
  remedies available to a mortgagee under the laws of  the  state  of  New
  York,  free from any restrictions contained in this section, except that
  the  commissioner  shall  be  made  a  party  defendant  and  that   the
  commissioner  shall take all steps necessary to protect the interests of
  the public and no costs shall be awarded against him.
3.  In the event of a judgment against an  eligible  borrower  in  any
  action  not  pertaining  to  the  collection of a mortgage indebtedness,
  there shall be no sale of any of the  real  property  of  such  eligible
  borrower  except upon sixty days' written notice to the commissioner and
  the agency.  Upon receipt of such notice the commissioner and the agency
  shall take such steps as in their judgment may be necessary  to  protect
  the rights of all parties.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-A - Youth Facilities Improvement Act › 410-M - Fees and Charges.

§  410-m.    Fees  and charges.   The commissioner may, by regulation,
  establish and charge to eligible borrowers such  fees  and  charges  for
  inspection, regulation, supervision and audit as to the commissioner may
  appear just and reasonable in order to recover the departmental costs in
  performing these functions.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-A - Youth Facilities Improvement Act › 410-O - Separability.

§  410-o.  Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of
  this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to
  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,  impair  or  invalidate  the
  remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
  sentence,  paragraph,  section  or part thereof directly involved in the
  controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-B - Child Care Resource and Referral Program › 410-P - Definitions.

§ 410-p. Definitions. As used in this title, the term:
1.  "Agency"  shall  mean  a  not-for-profit  corporation  or group of
  not-for-profit corporations.  With respect to any county  for  which  no
  appropriate  not-for-profit  corporation  or  group  of corporations has
  submitted a proposal, such term  shall  mean  a  statewide  or  regional
  not-for-profit corporation which establishes such a corporation or shall
  mean  a local governmental entity which provides the services authorized
  by this title;
2.   "Resource and referral  program"  shall  mean  an  agency  funded
  pursuant  to  this  title  to provide services specified in section four
  hundred ten-r of this title within a defined geographic area;
3. "Early childhood services" shall mean services which  include,  but
  are not limited to, registered, certified or licensed care in family day
  care homes, group family day care homes, school-age child care programs;
  head  start programs, day care centers; child care which may be provided
  without a permit, certificate or registration in  accordance  with  this
  statute;    early  childhood  education  programs  approved by the state
  education department; and care provided in a children's camp as  defined
  in section one thousand four hundred of the public health law;
4. "Required resource and referral services" shall mean those services
  listed  in  subdivision  one of section four hundred ten-q of this title
  which must be provided by each child care resource and referral  program
  to  parents and other guardians, child care and early childhood services
  providers, employers and communities within the geographic  area  served
  by the program, to the extent funds are available for such services;
5.  "Enhanced services" shall mean additional or more intensive levels
  of services as listed in subdivision two of section four  hundred  ten-q
  of  this  title,  which  an agency agrees to provide in order to receive
  additional funding pursuant to this title;
6. "Parent"  or  "Parents"  shall  mean  and  include  biological  and
  adoptive parents, guardians or other persons in parental relationship to
  a child.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-B - Child Care Resource and Referral Program › 410-R - Child Care Resource and Referral Programs.

§   410-r.  Child  care  resource  and  referral  programs.  1.    The
commissioner  shall  solicit  applications  for  available  funds   from
agencies  pursuant  to this title in a manner to ensure that agencies in
every area of the state will have an opportunity to apply for funds. The
commissioner shall designate areas to be served by child  care  resource
and  referral  services to ensure that services are accessible statewide
to the maximum extent feasible.
2. (a) In reviewing the applications, the commissioner shall  consider
the  ability  of  each  applicant  to provide the services delineated in
section four hundred ten-q of this title. Each agency shall  demonstrate
that  it has a viable plan to offer the required services to families in
the area without regard to income, and  to  attract  local  support  for
additions  to  the  required and enhanced services delineated in section
four hundred ten-q of this title.
(b) In connection with the review of an application for funds pursuant
to this title, the commissioner shall consider  requests  from  agencies
for additional funding for the provision of enhanced services.
3.  In  accordance  with  the  provisions of this title and subject to
funds appropriated specifically therefor, the commissioner is authorized
to award contracts for the operation of child care resource and referral
programs.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-B - Child Care Resource and Referral Program › 410-S - State Reimbursement.

§  410-s.  State  reimbursement.  1.  The  commissioner shall allocate
annually  any  state  funds,  including  any  available  federal  funds,
appropriated  for  such purposes among the agencies approved for funding
pursuant to this title.  The  commissioner  shall  allocate  such  funds
pursuant to a statewide formula developed by the department, which shall
be  based  upon  the  relative  numbers of children, children in working
families, and children in low income families in each county, as defined
by the department for this purpose.  The commissioner shall  notify  the
legislature  prior  to the implementation of any change or adjustment in
the formula.
2. As a condition of receiving funds pursuant  to  this  section,  the
child  care  resource  and referral program shall demonstrate that it is
receiving or has an agreement to receive funds, from sources other  than
the  department  pursuant  to this title. Funds other than those paid by
the department pursuant to this title may come from  any  other  source,
including  but  not  limited  to the department or other state agencies,
federal programs such as the United  States  department  of  agriculture
child   care  food  program,  local  agencies,  employers  or  community
organizations,  so  long  as  such  funds  are  for  reasonably  related
services.  To  continue  to receive funds pursuant to this section, such
resource and referral program must demonstrate to the commissioner  that
it  has  secured  funds  or  commitments  from  other  sources  or  that
extraordinary circumstances exist which preclude the  securing  of  such
funds.
3.  All  applications  approved  by  the  commissioner shall include a
commitment to use appropriate accounting and fiscal  control  procedures
which  shall  include  the filing of an annual financial statement which
has been audited as required by the department so as to ensure:
(a) the proper disbursement and accounting for funds received; and
(b) appropriate written records regarding the  population  served  and
type and extent of services rendered.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-B - Child Care Resource and Referral Program › 410-T - Responsibilities of the Commissioner.

§  410-t.  Responsibilities of the commissioner.  1.  The commissioner
shall monitor the performance of agencies to assure that  the  terms  of
the  contract are met, that the services are provided in accordance with
the intent of this title and that funds are used  as  required  by  this
title.
2.  The  commissioner  may  contract  for technical support, planning,
coordination and data collection services to assist agencies in offering
child care resource services in unserved areas.
3. Beginning July first, nineteen hundred ninety-four  and  biennially
thereafter,  the  commissioner shall submit a report to the governor and
the legislature on the implementation of this title which shall  include
but not be limited to:
(a)  the  names  of the agencies serving the counties and the counties
served by a child care resources and referral agency;
(b) the awards made to each agency;
(c) the characteristics and number of children and families  who  have
received services;
(d) the improvements in the accessibility of early childhood services,
the improvement in quality and the expanded supply;
(e)  the nature of services contracted for and additional services the
agency is able to provide with other funding sources;
(f) the amount of state and federal  funding  available  for  services
provided under this title; and
(g) the cost to the state to administer the programs funded under this
title.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-C - Block Grant for Child Care › 410-V - Allocation of Block Grant Funds.

§  410-v.  Allocation  of block grant funds.  1. The part of the block
  that is determined to be available  to  social  services  districts  for
  child  care  assistance  shall  be apportioned among the social services
  districts by the department according to an allocation plan developed by
  the department and  approved  by  the  director  of  the  budget.    The
  allocation  plan  shall  be based, at least in part, on historical costs
  and on the availability and cost  of,  and  the  need  for,  child  care
  assistance  in  each social services district.  Annual allocations shall
  be made on a federal fiscal year basis.
2. Reimbursement under the block grant to a social  services  district
  for  its  expenditures  for child care assistance shall be available for
  seventy-five percent of  the  district's  expenditures  for  child  care
  assistance  provided  to  those families in receipt of public assistance
  which are eligible for child care assistance under this  title  and  for
  one  hundred  percent of the social services district's expenditures for
  other eligible families;  provided,  however,  that  such  reimbursement
  shall  be  limited  to the social services district's annual state block
  grant allocation.
3. Any portion of a social services district's block grant  allocation
  for  a  particular  federal  fiscal  year  that  is  not claimed by such
  district during that federal fiscal year shall be added to  that  social
  services  district's  block grant allocation for the next federal fiscal
  year.
4.  Any claims for child care assistance made  by  a  social  services
  district for services that occurred from October first, nineteen hundred
  ninety-six  through  September thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-seven,
  other than claims made under title XX of  the  federal  social  security
  act, shall be counted against the social services district's first block
  grant allocation.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-C - Block Grant for Child Care › 410-Y - Maintenance of Effort.

§  410-y.  Maintenance  of effort. Each social services district shall
  maintain the amount of local funds spent for child care assistance under
  the child care block grant at a   level equal to  or  greater  than  the
  amount  the  district  spent  for child   care assistance during federal
  fiscal year nineteen hundred ninety-five under title IV-A of the federal
  social security act, the federal  child  care  development  block  grant
  program and the state low income child care program.  If the state fails
  to  meet  the  level of state and local child care  funding necessary to
  maintain the federal matching funds for child care  assistance available
  under title IV-a of the federal social security  act,  the  state  shall
  withhold  funding  from  those  social  services districts which spent a
  lower amount of local funds for child care  assistance than  the  amount
  they  spent  during  federal fiscal year  nineteen  hundred ninety-five,
  based on a formula established in department regulations, equal  to  the
  amount of the matching funds which  have been lost.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 5-C - Block Grant for Child Care › 410-Z - Reporting Requirements.

§  410-z.  Reporting requirements. Each social services district shall
  collect and submit to the department, in such form and at such times  as
  specified  by  the department, such data and information regarding child
  care assistance provided under the block grant  as  the  department  may
  need to comply with federal reporting requirements.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 411 - Findings and Purpose.

§  411.  Findings and purpose.  Abused and maltreated children in this
  state are in urgent need of an effective  child  protective  service  to
  prevent  them  from  suffering further injury and impairment.  It is the
  purpose of this title to encourage more complete reporting of  suspected
  child  abuse  and  maltreatment  and  to establish in each county of the
  state a child protective service capable of investigating  such  reports
  swiftly  and  competently  and  capable  of providing protection for the
  child or children from further abuse or maltreatment and  rehabilitative
  services for the child or children and parents involved.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 414 - Any Person Permitted to Report.

§  414.  Any person permitted to report.  In addition to those persons
  and officials required to report suspected child abuse or  maltreatment,
  any person may make such a report if such person has reasonable cause to
  suspect that a child is an abused or maltreated child.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 416 - Obligations of Persons Required to Report.

§  416.    Obligations  of persons required to report.   Any person or
  official  required  to  report  cases  of  suspected  child  abuse   and
  maltreatment may take or cause to be taken at public expense photographs
  of  the  areas  of  trauma visible on a child who is subject to a report
  and, if medically  indicated,  cause  to  be  performed  a  radiological
  examination on the child.  Any photographs or x-rays taken shall be sent
  to  the child protective service at the time the written report is sent,
  or as soon thereafter as possible.  Whenever such person is required  to
  report  under  this  title in his capacity as a member of the staff of a
  medical or other public or private  institution,  school,  facility,  or
  agency,  he  shall  immediately  notify  the  person  in  charge of such
  institution, school, facility or agency, or his  designated  agent,  who
  shall then take or cause to be taken at public expense color photographs
  of  visible  trauma  and  shall,  if  medically  indicated,  cause to be
  performed a radiological examination on the child.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 418 - Mandatory Reporting to and Post-Mortem Investigation of Deaths by Medical Examiner or Coroner.

§  418. Mandatory reporting to and post-mortem investigation of deaths
  by medical examiner or coroner.  Any  person  or  official  required  to
  report cases of suspected child abuse or maltreatment, including workers
  of  the  local  child  protective  service  who  has reasonable cause to
  suspect that a child died as a result of  child  abuse  or  maltreatment
  shall  report  that fact to the appropriate medical examiner or coroner.
  The  medical  examiner  or  coroner  shall   accept   the   report   for
  investigation and shall issue a preliminary written report of his or her
  finding  within  sixty  days  of the date of death, absent extraordinary
  circumstances, and his or her  final  written  report  promptly,  absent
  extraordinary  circumstances,  to  the  police, the appropriate district
  attorney, the local child protective service, the office of children and
  family services,  and,  if  the  institution  making  the  report  is  a
  hospital, the hospital. The office of children and family services shall
  promptly  provide  a  copy  of  the preliminary and final reports to the
  statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 419 - Immunity From Liability.

§  419. Immunity from liability.  Any person, official, or institution
  participating in good faith in the providing of a  service  pursuant  to
  section  four hundred twenty-four of this title, the making of a report,
  the taking of photographs, the removal or keeping of a child pursuant to
  this title, or the disclosure of child protective  services  information
  in  compliance  with  sections  twenty, four hundred twenty-two and four
  hundred twenty-two-a of  this  chapter  shall  have  immunity  from  any
  liability,  civil  or criminal, that might otherwise result by reason of
  such actions. For the purpose of any proceeding, civil or criminal,  the
  good  faith  of  any  such  person, official, or institution required to
  report cases of child abuse  or  maltreatment  or  providing  a  service
  pursuant  to section four hundred twenty-four or the disclosure of child
  protective services information in compliance with sections twenty, four
  hundred twenty-two and four hundred twenty-two-a of this  chapter  shall
  be presumed, provided such person, official or institution was acting in
  discharge  of their duties and within the scope of their employment, and
  that such liability did not result from the willful misconduct or  gross
  negligence of such person, official or institution.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 420 - Penalties for Failure to Report.

§  420.  Penalties for failure to report.  1.  Any person, official or
  institution required by this title to report a case of  suspected  child
  abuse  or maltreatment who willfully fails to do so shall be guilty of a
  class A misdemeanor.
2.  Any person, official or institution  required  by  this  title  to
  report a case of suspected child abuse or maltreatment who knowingly and
  willfully  fails  to  do  so  shall  be  civilly  liable for the damages
  proximately caused by such failure.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 422-C - Establishment of the Child Abuse Medical Provider Program (Champ).

§  422-c.  Establishment  of  the child abuse medical provider program
(CHAMP).  1.  The  child  abuse  medical  provider  program   shall   be
established  by  the office of children and family services and operated
by the child abuse referral and evaluation (CARE) program  of  the  SUNY
Upstate   medical   university,   provided   other  similarly  qualified
organizations may also operate a CHAMP program,  to  improve  access  to
quality  medical  care  for  suspected  child abuse victims by providing
training in the assessment and diagnostic skills for  medical  providers
to  identify  and  treat  child  abuse  victims  and  by  developing and
providing continuing education and mentoring to certain persons mandated
to report suspected child abuse or maltreatment pursuant to section four
hundred thirteen of this title. CHAMP shall be a network of expert child
abuse medical professionals, that provides  a  comprehensive  source  of
child  abuse  information  that  offers  resources and educational tools
created to assist and educate mandated reporters in  the  identification
of child abuse and maltreatment.
2. The CHAMP program shall provide information, training and mentoring
on  child  abuse  or  neglect  to  certain  persons  mandated  to report
suspected child abuse or maltreatment pursuant to section  four  hundred
thirteen of this title, and may include, but not be limited to:
(a) distant learning;
(b) a web based curriculum;
(c) video conferencing;
(d) workshops;
(e) mailings;
(f) self-study courses;
(g) continued learning through case conferences and peer review; and
(h) direct training of medical providers.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 424-B - Children in the Care of Certain Public and Private Agencies.

§  424-b. Children in the care of certain public and private agencies.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law,  when  a  report  of
  child  abuse  or maltreatment involves a child being cared for in a home
  operated or supervised by an authorized agency or the office of children
  and family services, such report shall be accepted and maintained by the
  office of children and family services and shall  be  referred  for  the
  purposes  of conducting an investigation to the appropriate staff within
  the office of children and family services where the  child  is  in  the
  care  of  such  agency;  and  where  the  child is in a home operated or
  supervised by an authorized agency,  to  the  social  services  district
  wherein  such  home  is  located. The office or social services district
  receiving such referral shall undertake an appropriate investigation  of
  the  report,  in  accordance  with the terms and conditions set forth in
  this title. Any person who is alleged to have  abused  or  maltreated  a
  child  in  a report accepted and referred pursuant to this section shall
  be accorded the procedural rights set  forth  in  section  four  hundred
  twenty-two and in subdivision six of section four hundred twenty-four of
  this   title.   Nothing  in  this  section  shall  impose  any  duty  or
  responsibility on any child protective service pursuant to section  four
  hundred  twenty-two,  four hundred twenty-four or any other provision of
  this article.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 425 - Cooperation of Other Agencies.

§ 425. Cooperation of other agencies. 1. To effectuate the purposes of
  this  title,  the  commissioner  may  request  and  shall  receive  from
  departments, boards, bureaus, or other agencies of the state, or any  of
  its  political subdivisions, or any duly authorized agency, or any other
  agency providing services under the local child protective services plan
  such assistance and data as will enable the department and  local  child
  protective  services to fulfill their responsibilities properly. Nothing
  contained in this subdivision shall  limit  the  department's  authority
  under  sections three hundred seventy-two, four hundred sixty-c and four
  hundred sixty-e of this chapter to  access  the  records  of  authorized
  agencies.
2. The department, after consultation with the division for youth, the
  division of criminal justice services, the department of mental hygiene,
  the  commission  on  quality  of  care for the mentally disabled and the
  state education department shall develop guidelines to  be  utilized  by
  appropriate   state  and  local  governmental  agencies  and  authorized
  agencies  as  defined  by  subdivision  ten  of  section  three  hundred
  seventy-one  of  this article which have responsibility for the care and
  protection of children,  in  evaluating  persons  who  have  a  criminal
  conviction  record  and  who  have  applied to such agencies or provider
  agencies, as defined  in  subdivision  three  of  section  four  hundred
  twenty-four-a  of  this title for employment or who have applied to such
  state agencies or licensing agency as defined  in  subdivision  four  of
  section  four  hundred  twenty-four-a  of  this  title,  for  a license,
  certificate, permit or approval to be an adoptive  parent,  provider  of
  day  care  services  in a day care center, family day care home or group
  family day care home, an operator of a camp subject to the provisions of
  article thirteen-B of the public health law, or an operator of a  foster
  family  home  subject  to the provisions of subdivision seven of section
  five hundred one, section five  hundred  two  or  subdivision  three  of
  section  five hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law or section three
  hundred seventy-six and three hundred seventy-seven of this article.
3. The guidelines  developed  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  this
  section  shall  not  supercede any similar guidelines developed by local
  governmental  agencies  prior  to  January   first,   nineteen   hundred
  eighty-six.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 426 - Annual Reports.

§ 426. Annual reports. The commissioner shall prepare for inclusion in
  the  annual  report  required by subdivision (d) of section seventeen of
  this chapter to be filed with the governor and the legislature prior  to
  December fifteenth of each year, a report on the operations of the state
  central  register  of child abuse and maltreatment and the various local
  child protective services. The report shall include a  full  statistical
  analysis  of  the  reports  made to the central register together with a
  report on the implementation of this title, his  or  her  evaluation  of
  services  offered  under this chapter and his or her recommendations for
  additional legislation to fulfill  the  purposes  of  this  title.  Such
  report shall indicate the number of child abuse and maltreatment reports
  and  cases received by the statewide central register of child abuse and
  maltreatment by each district in the preceding year, the number of  such
  cases  determined  to  have  been indicated and the number of such cases
  determined to be unfounded by each district in the preceding  year,  the
  number  of  such cases which have not been indicated or unfounded within
  the time period required by subdivision seven of  section  four  hundred
  twenty-four  of  this article by each district in the preceding year and
  the number of workers assigned to the child protective service  in  each
  district  in  the preceding year. Such report shall include, among other
  information, available demographic information and available information
  concerning the racial and ethnic characteristics of the  family  members
  and  persons  served  by  the  differential response program pursuant to
  section four hundred twenty-seven-a of the social services law, as  well
  as    available   information   concerning   the   racial   and   ethnic
  characteristics of the family members and  persons  serviced  under  the
  traditional  child  protective  services  program,  in each local social
  services district in the state.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 427 - Regulations of the Commissioner.

§  427.    Regulations of the commissioner.  1. The commissioner shall
  adopt regulations necessary to implement this title.
2. The commissioner shall  establish,  by  regulation,  standards  and
  criteria  under  which  the  child protective service of the appropriate
  local department of social services as petitioner in abuse  and  neglect
  proceedings  pursuant  to  article ten of the family court act shall not
  consent to an order pursuant to section one thousand thirty-nine of  the
  family court act.
2023 New York Laws › SOS - Social Services › Article 6 - Children › Title 6 - Child Protective Services › 428 - Separability.

§  428.    Separability.    If  any  provision  of  this  title or the
  application thereof to  any  person  or  circumstances  is  held  to  be
  invalid,  the remainder of the act and the application of such provision
  to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.