New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle E - Office of Children and Family Services › Part 182 - RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH REGULATIONS › Subpart 182-2 - RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH REGULATIONS FOR TRANSITIONAL INDEPENDENT LIVING SUPPORT PROGRAMS › Section 182-2.4 - Office approval or certification of transitional independent living support programs

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) A
				  municipality shall apply to the office, on forms prescribed by the office, for
				  approval of non-residential transitional living support programs. Applicants to
				  operate non-residential transitional independent living support programs shall
				  submit information, documentation and a specific description of the nature and
				  purpose of the program for which the applicant is seeking approval, to the
				  municipality.
(b) On or after
				  January 1, 2018, an applicant seeking a certificate to operate a residential
				  transitional independent living support program that serves or proposes to
				  serve youth under 18 years of age or that is or is anticipated to be contained
				  in a municipality's approved comprehensive plan must submit to the office a
				  copy of its articles of incorporation, containing a purposes clause empowering
				  the agency to care for, place out or board out children, in order to
				  demonstrate it is an authorized agency.
(c) The following documents and information
				  shall comprise an application submitted to a municipality for approval of a
				  non-residential, or an application submitted to the office for certification of
				  a residential, transitional independent living support program:
(1) the financial and organizational history
				  of the applicant, including a copy of the most current fiscal audit report and
				  the most recent annual report;
(2)
				  the number and characteristics of clients served in past and present
				  programs;
(3) a copy of the
				  applicant's New York State articles of incorporation and all amendments
				  thereto, with proof that such corporate papers have been filed with the
				  Department of State;
(4)
				  documentation of current charities registration, if a not-for-profit
				  agency;
(5) a list of the
				  applicant's governing board members;
(6) a notarized statement, signed by the
				  chief executive officer of a municipality or president of a board of directors
				  stating that, to the best of his or her knowledge, no member of the governing
				  board is an employee of the applicant and no member of its advisory bodies is
				  directly or indirectly engaged in any business or activity which conflicts with
				  the discharge of his or her duties as a member of the board;
(7) a specific description of the program,
				  including the location, type of program, number of youth to be served, ages of
				  youth to be served, services to be provided or arranged for by the program and
				  a maintenance and operating budget for the initial operating period;
				  and
(8) for applicants proposing
				  new residential facilities, a work plan which sets forth all tasks to be
				  completed and projected dates of completion in fulfillment of all operational
				  and physical plant requirements of this Subpart.