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This bill requires the Office of Children and Family Services to collect and report data on post-adoption services statewide.
Why it matters
Brings transparency to post-adoption services. by requiring the state to collect and report detailed data on service availability, service use, and denied requests, which can highlight gaps or disparities across different counties.
Helps identify and address adoption disruptions. by tracking how many children re-enter foster care after being adopted and whether post-adoption services were involved, potentially informing strategies to support adoptive families and prevent breakdowns.
Supports policy improvement and resource allocation. by mandating annual analysis and recommendations on how post-adoption services impact the stability of adoptive placements, guiding lawmakers and agencies on where to focus funding or program development.
Establishes accountability for service providers and agencies. by documenting reasons for denied service requests and the types of services most lacking, which can drive improvements in access and quality of support for adoptive families statewide.
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- Referred to children and families
- Referred to children and families
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Track Post-Adoption Services Statewide
In Senate Committee · Children And Families · Sponsor Kevin S. Parker
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6984
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 28, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to post-adoption services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 372-i to read as follows:
§ 372-i. Post adoption services. 1. The office of children and family services shall collect data and information on the availability of postadoption services around the state. The office shall work with local social services districts, authorized agencies, and not-for-profit agencies with experience providing post-adoption services to gather, to the greatest extent possible, non-identifying information by county including but not limited to:
a. the number of children entering foster care who had previously been adopted;
b. the number of families who received post-adoption services;
c. the number of children in paragraph a of this subdivision who had received post-adoption services and what type of services were rendered;
d. the number of denied requests for services, and the reason for such denials; and
e. the type of service for which requests were denied.
2. The office of children and family services shall submit a report to the speaker of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the minority leader of the assembly and the minority leader of the senate no later than September first of each year with the data and information required by subdivision one of this section for the preceding year. The office shall include an analysis of the availability of post-adoption services statewide and regionally, the extent to which the provisions of such services prevents the disruption of adoptions and recommendations
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for specific services to promote the permanency of adoptive placements. The office shall indicate the extent to which the information collected reflects the total population described in subdivision one of this section, and identify any impediments to collecting such information.
§ 2. This act shall take effect the thirty-first of August next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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