398-D - Child Welfare Services Community Demonstration Projects.

NY Soc Serv L § 398-D (2019) (N/A)
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(a) the number of children and families who received preventive services, child protective services and foster care, (b) the number of delinquent and incarcerated youth in the demonstration projects, (c) the length of an average foster care placement, (d) the number of completed adoptions for youth residing within the demonstration area, including their age, gender, race, ethnicity and religion, (e) the gross expenditures for foster care, compared to the gross expenditures for child protective, preventive and adoption services, (f) changes in the quality and quantity of time spent by caseworkers with clients, (g) staffing ratios of foster care, preventive and child protective services, (h) the perspective (attitude, viewpoint, outlook) of caseworkers serving and clients served in the demonstration project, and (i) recommendations for expansion of community-based provisions for child welfare services. For purposes of the report, the data described above should be compared to the extent possible with non-demonstration areas.