N.Y. Social Services Law § 115: Training and utilization of volunteers

§ 115. Training and utilization of volunteers. Subject to the

approval of the department, public welfare districts are authorized to

sponsor and conduct programs for the recruitment, training and

utilization of volunteers to assist welfare district employees in the

performance of office duties and to aid in performing services in

welfare districts including but not limited to the following:

(a) friendly visiting of the indigent aged;

(b) finding homes for foster children;

(c) escorting and transporting recipients to clinics and other

destinations;

(d) aiding in location of improved housing;

(e) teaching homemaking skills and aiding in budgeting and care of

the household;

(f) providing tutoring and other educational aid; and

(g) giving information, screening requests and performing other

services in waiting rooms of welfare centers.