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 3 - Child-care Agencies
Part 446 - Designated Emergency Foster Family Boarding Home Care
Section 446.6 - Intake for designated emergency foster family boarding homes

(a) A designated emergency foster family boarding home supervised by a public authorized agency must be available to accept eligible children 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. However, upon written notice by the foster parents to the supervising agency, and if agreed to in writing by such agency and upon good cause shown, an exception to continuous operation of an emergency foster home may be granted if the foster parents intend to be temporarily absent from the home or temporarily unable to accept children for placement in the home.

(b) A voluntary authorized agency supervising one or more designated emergency foster family boarding homes must have 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year intake capacity or, in the alternative, have the capacity to place eligible children immediately in designated emergency foster family boarding homes when such children are referred to the agency by a social services district after the district's normal business hours. The purchase of service agreement between the local social services district and an authorized agency which provides emergency foster care services after the district's normal business hours must specify the hours during which referrals may be made to the agency for emergency placement of children.

(c) A voluntary authorized agency supervising a designated emergency foster family boarding home must accept any child who is eligible under subdivision (d) of this section for emergency placements, whenever such a child is referred by a social services district to the agency pursuant to a purchase of service agreement.

(d) In order for a child to be eligible for designated emergency foster family boarding home placement, a child must be at immediate risk of harm or present an immediate risk of harm to others or himself/herself if not immediately placed into foster care, and the reasons for the placement must meet the necessity of placement standards contained in section 430.10(c) of this Title. In addition, the initial assessment at the time of placement must indicate that the crisis situation which requires the placement of the child in a designated emergency foster family boarding home is expected to be resolved within 60 days.