Establishes the statewide kinship navigator program for kinship caregivers.
Establishes the kinship legal network program in the office of children and family services to provide legal services to kinship caregivers.
Establishes the kinship legal network program in the office of children and family services to provide legal services to kinship caregivers.
Establishes the office of the child welfare advocate to provide support to youth, biological parents, kinship caregivers and foster parents including prospective kinship caregivers or foster parents.
Expands the right to assistance of counsel to include respondents in guardianship proceedings and kinship caregivers in custody and guardianship proceedings.
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim September 2023, as Kinship Care Month in the State of New York
Relates to kinship guardianship of children whose parental rights were surrendered or terminated.
Relates to kinship guardianship of children whose parental rights were surrendered or terminated.
Relates to dementia care; establishes a dementia care coordinator in the state office for the aging to manage the work of dementia care navigators; requires each area agency to employ a dementia care navigator; sets forth the duties of the dementia care coordinator and dementia care navigators.
Relates to dementia care; establishes a dementia care coordinator in the state office for the aging to manage the work of dementia care navigators; requires each area agency to employ a dementia care navigator; sets forth the duties of the dementia care coordinator and dementia care navigators.