N.Y. Social Services Law § 409-g: Training of child welfare personnel

§ 409-g. Training of child welfare personnel. Within the amounts

appropriated therefor, including all federal reimbursement received or

to be received on account thereof, the department shall develop and

implement a plan for the training of social services district and other

authorized agency personnel, including caseworkers involved in the

provision or supervision of preventive services, foster care services

and adoption services. Such training shall include but need not be

limited to:

1. Permanence casework: casework methodologies focused on activities

designed to prevent placement in foster care or to shorten the length of

stay in care for those children who can be returned home or freed for

adoption;

2. Development of skills to facilitate rehabilitation or restoration

of the family unit;

3. Development of knowledge and skills in legally freeing children

for adoption and providing adoption services;

4. Development of knowledge and skills to prepare for court processes

necessary in foster care and adoption; and

5. Development of case management skills including planning for

permanence for each child.