2020 New York Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 6 - Children
Title 7 - 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.