New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 18 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter II - Regulations of the Department of Social Services
Subchapter C - Social Services
Article 2 - Family and Children's Services
Part 429 - Family And Children's Services Plan
Section 429.4 - Content
Universal Citation: 18 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 429.4
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) The Family and Children's Services Plan shall include all services which shall be provided or contracted for through purchase of service agreements by the district on behalf of children and families during the period covered by the plan. The family and children's services which the district provides may include but are not limited to the following:
(1) foster care;
(2) preventive services;
(3) child protective services;
(4) adoption services;
(5) employment services;
(6) housing improvement services;
(7) day-care services;
(8) domestic violence;
(9) unmarried parent services;
(10) family planning services;
(11) health-related services;
(12) home management services;
(13) homemaker services;
(14) housekeeper/chore services;
and
(15) educational
services.
(b) Each plan must contain the following major elements:
(1) Needs assessment. Child welfare service
needs of families and children for whom the district is or may be responsible
shall be determined on an annual basis.
(i)
The assessment shall be based on, but not limited to:
(a) manner of current service delivery;
(1) persons potentially requiring services
and care; and
(2) characteristics
of persons currently receiving service and care;
(b) data obtained through district's public
participation process as required in section
429.3(b)
of this Part; and
(c) indicators of
general social and economic conditions.
(ii) Needs assessment shall include a
numerical estimate of families and children requiring each such service
provided in the district.
(iii)
Each social services district shall provide a narrative description of how the
numerical estimates were derived, including use of historical, programmatic and
fiscal trend information.
(2) District goals and objectives for family
and children's services.
(i) Based on the
needs assessments, each district must develop explicit goals and objectives
which are intended to ensure that:
(a)
families are able to stay together and develop supportive relationships and
maintain or achieve independence;
(b) families with children in foster care are
able to reunite and develop supportive relationships and maintain or achieve
independence;
(c) children whose
families are unable to care adequately for them receive appropriate, stable,
substitute care; and
(d) children
in foster care who are unable to return to their families are provided
permanent homes or develop the capacity to live independently upon achieving
adulthood.
(ii) Goals
and objectives must be established concerning foster care, child protective
services, preventive services and adoption services. In addition, the district
must develop goals and objectives concerning at least two other services among
those for which needs assessment estimates have been made.
(iii) Goals and objectives must be
client-outcome-oriented and expressed in measurable quantifiable terms. Goals
will cover a period of not less than one year and not more than three years.
Objectives will cover the one-year period covered by the annual Family and
Children's Services Plan.
(3) Resource inventory. The existing capacity
and utilization of resources in the district and surrounding area available or
likely to become available to provide services and care must be set forth.
(i) The listing of resources should include:
(a) residential foster care
facilities;
(b) title XX and other
purchase of services;
(c) agencies
with contractual or other agreements that provide services; and
(d) district staff employed in family and
children's services;
(ii) For those services for which the
district has established goals and objectives:
(a) the names of all relevant service
providers (excluding foster families and family day care) and some measure of
their service capacity; and
(b)
level of utilization by the local districts, in terms of clients
served.
(4)
Activities and resources required to achieve objectives.
(i) For each service for which needs
assessment is completed the district is required to identify projected program
and fiscal requirements, including:
(a)
numbers of children and families to receive each service; and
(b) estimated expenditures for each service
and identification of expected reimbursement from all sources.
(ii) The district is required to
identify projected program and fiscal requirements for each service for which a
needs assessment is completed. The district will describe the explicit
activities which will be undertaken to meet objectives defined for the period
covered by the plan. These may include the development of new resources,
expanding existing resources or better utilizing available resources.
(5)
(i) Monitoring and evaluation of Family and
Children's Services Plan. Local social services districts must contain in their
plans an explanation of how the local districts will monitor and evaluate plan
implementation. The department will periodically monitor and evaluate plan
implementation. The department will periodically monitor and review local plan
implementation and, where it finds substantive noncompliance with the plan, the
department will withhold reimbursement for claims submitted for services that
are not in compliance with the plan.
(ii) The local social services district will
be required, effective January 1, 1981, and in each succeeding year, to provide
in the plan a status report on the achievement of previously described
objectives, in a format determined by the department.
(6) Public participation.
(i) The local district must include in the
plan a description of how the participation required pursuant to subdivision
(b) of section
429.3
of this Part was achieved and the mechanism(s) utilized to acquire public
comment in accordance with guidelines issued by the department.
(ii) If the local district chooses in the
development of the plan to utilize public hearings held in conjunction with the
Child Protective Services Plan or Title XX Plan, a specific time period, which
is specified in the plan, must be utilized solely for such plan and public
notice must be made.
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