N.Y. Social Services Law § 335-c: Pilot programs

§ 335-c. Pilot programs. From the funds specifically appropriated

therefor the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability

assistance in cooperation with the commissioner of the office of

children and family services may conduct pilot programs in up to five

social services districts to provide intensive employment and other

supportive services including job readiness and job placement services

to non-custodial parents who are unemployed or who are working less than

twenty hours per week; who are recipients of public assistance or whose

income does not exceed two hundred percent of the federal poverty level;

and who have a child support order payable through the support

collection unit as created by section one hundred eleven-h of this

chapter or have had paternity established for his or her child and a

court proceeding has been initiated to obtain an order of child support,

and the custodial or non-custodial parent is receiving child support

services through a social services district. Non-custodial parents

determined to be eligible for participation in the pilot programs shall

be informed of the opportunity to participate in such programs on a

voluntary basis. The pilot programs shall have as one component

parenting education for the non-custodial parents. Non-custodial parents

shall be required to attend such parenting education as a condition of

participating in the pilot programs.