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The New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR) contains New York state rules and regulations. [1] ... Social Services: 4 volumes 19: State: 2 volumes 20: Taxation ...
The New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) is an agency of the New York state government. [1] [2] The office has its headquarters in the Capital View Office Park in Rensselaer. [3] Along with the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance it is part of the pro forma Department of Family Assistance.
[10] [11] In 1931 they were renamed as the Department of Social Welfare and the State Board of Social Welfare. [12] [3] In 1940 the State Charities Law and the Public Welfare Law were consolidated and clarified in one Social Welfare Law. [13] [14] [3] [15] In 1967 it was renamed as the Department of Social Services. [16]
Section 21 of the New York State Social Services Law requires the New York State Department of Social Services to design and implement a Welfare Management System (WMS) capable of receiving, maintaining and processing information relating to persons who apply for benefits, or who are determined to be eligible for benefits under any program administered by the Department."
The New York State Department of Family Assistance may refer to: the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA)
The Welfare Reform Act of 1997 (the state response to the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996) created two programs, Family Assistance (FA) and Safety Net Assistance (SNA), to be state-directed and county-administered implementations of the constitutional mandate to aid, care and support the needy.
The majority of the public mental health system is in voluntary outpatient programs, the largest and most used being clinic treatment services. [3] Inpatient care is provided mainly by homeless shelters, supplemented by the general hospital network, jails, and state psychiatric centers.
As an English colony, New York's social services were based on the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1598-1601, in which the poor who could not work were cared for in a poorhouse. Those who could were employed in a workhouse. The first Poorhouse in New York was created in the 1740s, and was a combined Poorhouse, Workhouse, and House of Corrections.