2006 New York Code - Responsibilities Of Lead Agency.

 
    §  2550.  Responsibilities  of  lead  agency.  1.  The  lead agency is
  responsible for the general administration and supervision  of  programs
  and activities receiving assistance under this title, and the monitoring
  of  programs  and  activities used by the state to carry out this title,
  whether or not such programs or activities are receiving assistance made
  available under this title, to ensure that the state complies  with  the
  provisions of this title.
    2. In meeting the requirements of subdivision one of this section, the
  lead  agency  shall  adopt  and  use proper methods of administering the
  early intervention program, including:
    (a) establishing standards for evaluators,  service  coordinators  and
  providers of early intervention services;
    (b)  approving,  and  periodically  re-approving  evaluators,  service
  coordinators and providers  of  early  intervention  services  who  meet
  department standards;
    (c)  compiling  and  disseminating  to  the  municipalities  lists  of
  approved  evaluators,  service  coordinators  and  providers  of   early
  intervention services;
    (d)  monitoring of agencies, institutions and organizations under this
  title and  agencies,  institutions  and  organizations  providing  early
  intervention  services which are under the jurisdiction of a state early
  intervention service agency;
    (e) enforcing any obligations imposed on  those  agencies  under  this
  title  or  Part H of the federal individuals with disabilities education
  act and its regulations;
    (f) providing training and technical  assistance  to  those  agencies,
  institutions  and  organizations, including initial and ongoing training
  and technical assistance  to  municipalities  to  help  enable  them  to
  identify,  locate  and evaluate eligible children, develop IFSPs, ensure
  the provision of appropriate early intervention  services,  promote  the
  development of new services, where there is a demonstrated need for such
  services  and  afford  procedural safeguards to infants and toddlers and
  their families;
    (g) correcting deficiencies that are  identified  through  monitoring;
  and
    (h)  in monitoring early intervention services, the commissioner shall
  provide  municipalities  with  the  results  of  any  review  of   early
  intervention  services  undertaken  and shall provide the municipalities
  with the opportunity to comment thereon.
    3. The commissioner,  through  a  comprehensive  system  of  personnel
  development,  shall  promote  the availability of qualified personnel to
  provide evaluations and early intervention services to eligible children
  and their families.