New York
NEW YORK
Larry G. Brown
Director
Bureau of Management Information and Evaluation Services
New York Department of Social Services
40 North Pearl Street, 8C
Albany, NY 12243
(518) 474-9429
(518) 474-1842 Fax
sv0040@dfa.state.ny.us
General: New York did not submit many key data elements because the State converted to a SACWIS system in the middle of the year.
Item 1.1: Numbers may be duplicated. Children receiving services included the following: 86,625 received IV-B Mandated Preventive Services; 1,052 received IV-B Part 2, Family Support Services; 9,141 received services from the Child Welfare Trust Fund, and 569 received services from the Crisis Nursery. Adults receiving services received them from the Child Welfare Trust Fund, the Crisis Nursery Program, and IV-B, Part 2.
Preventive services are those supportive and rehabilitative services provided to children and their families for the purpose of averting a disruption of a family that will or could result in placement of a child in foster care; enabling a child who has been placed in foster care to return to his family at an earlier time than would otherwise be possible; or reducing the likelihood that a child who has been discharged from foster care would return to such care. The following services are considered preventive services:
- Case management is generally defined as the responsibility of
the local department of social services to authorize the provision
of preventive services, to approve the client eligibility
determination, and to approve the service plans.
- Case planning is generally defined as assessing the need for,
providing, arranging for, coordinating and evaluating the provision
of those preventive services needed by a child and his family to
prevent disruption of the family or to help a child in foster care
return home sooner.
- Casework contacts refer to individual or group face-to-face
counseling sessions between the case planner and the child and/or
the childs parents or guardians for the purpose of guiding
them toward a course of action that is the best method of obtaining
personal objectives or resolving problems or needs of a social,
emotional, developmental, or economic nature.
- Day care services are generally defined as assessing the need
for, providing, supervising, monitoring, and evaluating the
provision of care of a child age 6 weeks to 14 years for a portion
of the day outside the home in an approved day care facility.
- Homemaker services are generally defined as assessing the need
for, arranging for, providing, and evaluating the provision of
personal care, home management, and incidental household tasks
through the services of a trained homemaker.
- Housekeeper/chore services are generally defined as assessing
the need for, arranging for, providing, and evaluating the
provision of light work or household tasks that families and
individuals in their own homes are unable to perform because of
illness, incapacity, or absence of a caretaker relative.
- Family planning services are generally defined as services to
enable individuals (including minors who may be sexually active) to
plan their families in accordance with their wishes and prevent or
reduce incidence of unwanted pregnancies.
- Home management services are generally defined as assessing the
need for, arranging for, providing, and evaluating the provision of
formal or informal instruction and training in the management of
household budgets, maintenance and care of the home, preparation of
food, nutrition, consumer education, child rearing, and health
maintenance.
- Clinical services include assessment, diagnosis, testing,
psychotherapy, and specialized therapies provided by a person who
has received a specialized license or degree.
- Parent aide services include those services provided in the
home and community that focus on the need of the parent for
instruction and guidance and are designed to maintain and enhance
parental functioning and family/parent role performance.
- Day services to children refers to a program offering a
combination of services including at least social services,
psychiatric, psychological, educational, vocational services, and
health supervision for at least 3 hours a day 4 days per
week.
- Parent training refers to group instruction in parent skills
development and developmental needs of the child and adolescent for
the purpose of strengthening parental functioning and parent/child
relationships in order to avert a disruption in the family or help
a child in foster care return home sooner than otherwise
possible.
- Transportation services refer to providing or arranging for
transportation of the child and/or his family to services as part
of the childs service plan.
- Emergency cash or goods refer to money or the equivalent food,
clothing, or other essential items that are provided to a child and
his family in an emergency or acute problem situation in order to
avert foster care placement.
- Emergency shelter refers to providing or arranging for shelter
for a child and his family in an emergency or acute problem
situation in a site other than their own home in order to avert
foster care placement.
- Intensive, home-based family preservation services refer to casework services and direct therapeutic services provided to families in order to reduce or avoid the need for foster care placements of children who are in imminent danger of such placements. Such services may include arranging housing assistance, child care, job training, education services, emergency cash grants, and basic support needs.
