N.Y. Social Services Law § 372-h: Reporting on post adoption services

§ 372-h. Reporting on post adoption services. 1. The office of

children and family services shall place information on its website in

English, French, Polish, and the ten most common non-English languages

spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in the state of

New York, based on United States census data regarding post adoption

services funded by the office. The office shall work with social

services districts to place information, to the extent that it is

available, on each social services district website in English, French,

Polish, and the ten most common non-English languages spoken by

individuals with limited English proficiency in the state of New York,

based on United States census data regarding post adoption services

funded by the social services district. Authorized agencies shall notify

a foster parent, who has expressed interest in adopting a foster child,

of such websites listing potentially eligible services for a foster

child, upon the adoption of such foster child.

2. The office of children and family services shall collect and

compile, by social services district:

(a) the following information on post adoption services funded by the

office:

(i) the number of children and families served; and

(ii) the type of services provided; and

(b) the number of families receiving preventive services where post

adoption services was identified as a necessary and appropriate service

as part of the family assessment service plan held pursuant to section

four hundred nine-e of this article and the status of such services.

3. The office of children and family services shall compile, to the

extent that such information is available electronically through the

state automated child welfare information system, the following non-

identifying information by social services district:

(a) the number of children entering foster care that had previously

been adopted;

(b) the number of families receiving preventive services where at

least one child in the household had previously been adopted; and

(c) for the children and families identified in paragraphs (a) and (b)

of this subdivision, the types of services, including post adoption

services, identified as necessary and appropriate for the child or the

members of the child's family as part of the family assessment service

plan held pursuant to section four hundred nine-e of this article and

the status of such services.

4. (a) The office of children and family services shall submit, and

publish on its website, an annual report to the speaker of the assembly,

the temporary president of the senate and the chairpersons of the senate

and assembly children and families committees starting no later than

September first, two thousand fifteen. Such report shall include data

and information required by subdivision two of this section for the

preceding year, to the extent that such information is available, and

any other information the office of children and family services deems

appropriate. The office of children and family services shall indicate

the extent to which the information collected reflects the total

population described in subdivision two of this section, and identify

any impediments to collecting such information.

(b) Beginning September first, two thousand seventeen, the annual

report required by paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be expanded

to include data and information required by subdivision three of this

section for the preceding year, to the extent that such information is

available, and any other information the office of children and family

services deems appropriate.