2012 New York Consolidated Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - CHILDREN
Title 7 - (430 - 434) DAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
430 - Day services; when social services official may furnish.

 
    §  430.   Day services; when social services official may furnish.  1.
  In order to preserve and stabilize family life, to prevent the need  for
  placement  of  children  outside  their homes, and to enable children in
  foster care to return to their families as expeditiously as possible,  a
  social services official is authorized to provide day services at public
  expense  to  children  and  their  families  residing  in his territory,
  pursuant to the provisions of this title.
    2.  Day services may be provided in cases where  the  social  services
  official  has  determined that such services would promote or accomplish
  one or more of the following objectives:
    (a)  to avert a risk of serious impairment or disruption of  a  family
  unit  which  would  result  in  the placement of a child outside his own
  home;
    (b)  to enable a child who has been placed in a child care institution
  or other group care facility to be placed in a foster care setting  more
  closely oriented to community or family life;
    (c)  to enable a child who has been placed in foster care to return to
  his family at an earlier time than would otherwise be possible.
    3.    If the child's family is able to pay part or all of the costs of
  day services, such family shall be required to pay such fees therefor as
  may be reasonable in the light of such ability pursuant  to  regulations
  of the department.
    4.   Day services may be provided by a social services official either
  directly or through purchase.   Purchase of such services  may  be  made
  only  from  a private non-profit corporation or association, except when
  the commissioner shall have approved the purchase of such services  from
  a  private  proprietary  facility  by a social services official who has
  demonstrated a lack of  conveniently  accessible  non-profit  facilities
  that are adequate to provide the required services.
    5.    As  used  in  this  title,  "day  services"  shall mean care and
  treatment for part of the day of one or  more  children  under  eighteen
  years  of  age  and  their  families in a program which provides to such
  children and families in accordance with their  needs  various  services
  such   as  psychiatric,  psychological,  social  casework,  educational,
  vocational, health, transportation and such other  services  as  may  be
  appropriate.  Such services shall be provided in accordance with program
  standards  promulgated by the department.  Day services may be continued
  after the eighteenth birthday of a child in the care  of  an  authorized
  agency and until he becomes twenty-one years of age.  Day services shall
  not be provided to any children and their families for periods in excess
  of one year, without the approval of the department.