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 439 - QUALIFIED RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAMS
Section 439.3 - Family and Permanency Team

(a) If an assessment is initiated pursuant to section 439.2 of this Part and in accordance with section 409-h of the Social Services Law, the social services district shall assemble a family and permanency team for the child as such term is defined in section 441.2 of this Title. The qualified individual, as such term is defined in section 441.2 of this Title, that is conducting the assessment required under section 409-h of the Social Services Law shall work in conjunction with the team while conducting and making the assessment.

(b) The family and permanency team shall consist of all appropriate biological family members, relatives, and fictive kin of the child as well as, as appropriate, professionals who are a resource to the family of the child, such as the attorney for the child or the attorney for the parent, if applicable, and teachers, medical or mental health providers who have treated the child, or clergy. In the case of a child who has attained age 14, the family and permanency team shall include the members of the permanency planning team for the child that are selected by the child in accordance with 42 United States Code section 675 and the state's approved Title IV-E state plan.

(c) The social services district shall document in the child's case plan those items as set forth in section 428.5 of this Title pertaining to the formation and preferences of the family and permanency team.