2010 New York Code
EXC - Executive
Article 12 - (240 - 249) OFFICE OF PROBATION AND CORRECTIONAL ALTERNATIVES
244 - Hostels and foster homes.

§ 244. Hostels and foster homes. 1. The office is hereby authorized to
  provide  or  to  pay for care in a hostel or foster home approved by the
  office as suitable for such cases for any probationer or  parolee  under
  the  age of twenty-one years when the parole board or a judge of a court
  determines that there is no other suitable home for such probationer  or
  parolee  and  that  such probationer or parolee should be placed in such
  hostel or foster home. In  addition  to  payment  for  such  care,  when
  ordered  by  the  board or court, the office is authorized to provide or
  pay  for  clothing  and  other  necessities,   including   medical   and
  psychiatric  treatment,  required for the welfare of such probationer or
  parolee. The office may also provide or contract for such  care  in  any
  suitable facility operated by a department of correction or by any other
  public  or voluntary social welfare agency, institution or organization.
  A court with respect to such a probationer and  the  parole  board  with
  respect  to  such a parolee shall, subject to regulation by the division
  control admissions to and discharges from such hostels and foster homes.
  When placement is made in any hostel or foster home, or in any  facility
  other  than  a  public  institution, such placement whenever practicable
  shall be in a hostel, or facility operated by or in the home of a person
  or persons of the same religious faith as the probationer or parolee.
    2. The office shall have authority and the duty to stimulate  programs
  for  the  development  of  hostels  and  foster  homes  for  the care of
  probationers and parolees under the age of twenty-one years.