N.Y. Social Services Law Section 372-B
Adoption services

1.

a. A prospective adoptive parent shall have a right to a fair hearing pursuant to § 22 (Appeals and fair hearings)section twenty-two of this chapter concerning the failure of a social services official to provide adoption services authorized to be provided pursuant to this section and the state’s consolidated services plan. At the time a child is placed in a prospective adoptive home, the prospective adoptive parent shall be notified in writing of his or her right to such fair hearing.

b.

Each social services official shall provide, either directly or through purchase of service, adoption services for each child in their care who is freed for adoption. Such adoption services shall include the evaluation of a child’s placement needs and pre-placement planning, recruitment of and homestudy for prospective adoptive parents, training of adoptive parents, placement planning, supervision and post adoption services.

2.

The department shall promulgate regulations which shall require that adoption services be made available to all children who are listed with the New York state adoption service. Such regulations shall also provide for cooperation between local social services commissioners, and for apportioning reimbursement for adoption services where more than one agency or social services district has provided such services for a child. 2-a. The department shall promulgate regulations requiring all adoption agencies to forward names and addresses of all persons who have applied for adoption of a hard-to-place or handicapped child, as defined in § 451 (Definitions)section four hundred fifty-one of this chapter. A list of such names and addresses shall be maintained by the department and made available, without charge, to every agency in the state to assist them in placing such children for adoption.

3.

The department shall promulgate regulations to maintain enlightened adoption policies and to establish standards and criteria for adoption practices.

Source: Section 372-B — Adoption services, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/SOS/372-B (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed May 4, 2024).

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Definitions Unless the context or the subject matter manifestly requires a different interpretation, when used in this article or in any ... 371‑A
Procedure 371‑B
Citizen review panels 372
Records and reports 372‑B
Adoption services 372‑C
Putative father registry 372‑D
Adoption services 372‑E
Adoption applications 372‑F
Statewide adoption service 372‑G
Abandoned infant protection program 372‑H
Reporting on post adoption services 373
Religious faith 373‑A
Medical histories 374
Authority to place out or board out children 374‑A
Interstate compact on the placement of children 374‑B
Authority to operate agency boarding home 374‑C
Authority to operate group homes 374‑D
Authority to operate public institutions for children 374‑E
Authority to place out or board out children with therapeutic foster parents 374‑F
Authority to enter into leases for dwelling units 375
Requirement of certificate or license to board children 376
Certificate to board children and/or minors under age of eighteen years 377
License to board children 378
Form, duration and limitation of certificates and licenses 378‑A
Access to conviction records by authorized agencies 379
Revocation of certificates and licenses 380
Boarding and free homes 381
Maternity homes 382
Responsibility for children without state residence 383
Care and custody of children 383‑A
Immunity from liability for application of the reasonable and prudent parent standard 383‑B
Medical treatment for abused, neglected and destitute children 383‑C
Guardianship and custody of children in foster care 384
Guardianship and custody of children not in foster care 384‑A
Transfer of care and custody of children 384‑B
Guardianship and custody of destitute or dependent children 384‑C
Notice in certain proceedings to fathers of children born out-of-wedlock 385
Orders 386
Visitation 387
Ineligibility for public foster care funds 388
Special charters 389
Penalty for violations 390
Child day care 390‑A
Standards and training for child day care 390‑B
Criminal history review and background clearances of child care providers, generally 390‑C
Notice of pesticide applications 390‑C*2
Additional powers and duties of the office of children and family services 390‑D
Requiring barriers to be placed around swimming pools and bodies of water on the grounds of family day care homes or group family day car... 390‑E
Criminal history review 390‑F
Report on child care insurance 390‑G
Pesticide alternatives 390‑H
Notice requirement before closing certain day care centers 390‑I
Notice of inspection report 390‑J
Performance summary card in a city having a population of one million or more 390‑K
Child care availability taskforce 390‑L
Securing of furniture 390‑M
Window coverings 391
Violation 392
Services for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers 393
Court review of placement in a qualified residential treatment program 393*2
Consideration of blindness during guardianship, custody or adoption proceedings
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Accessed:
May 4, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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