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SECTION 372-H
Reporting on post adoption services
Social Services (SOS) CHAPTER 55, ARTICLE 6, TITLE 1
§ 372-h. Reporting on post adoption services. 1. The office of
children and family services shall place information on its website in
English, French, Polish, and the ten most common non-English languages
spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in the state of
New York, based on United States census data regarding post adoption
services funded by the office. The office shall work with social
services districts to place information, to the extent that it is
available, on each social services district website in English, French,
Polish, and the ten most common non-English languages spoken by
individuals with limited English proficiency in the state of New York,
based on United States census data regarding post adoption services
funded by the social services district. Authorized agencies shall notify
a foster parent, who has expressed interest in adopting a foster child,
of such websites listing potentially eligible services for a foster
child, upon the adoption of such foster child.

2. The office of children and family services shall collect and
compile, by social services district:

(a) the following information on post adoption services funded by the
office:

(i) the number of children and families served; and

(ii) the type of services provided; and

(b) the number of families receiving preventive services where post
adoption services was identified as a necessary and appropriate service
as part of the family assessment service plan held pursuant to section
four hundred nine-e of this article and the status of such services.

3. The office of children and family services shall compile, to the
extent that such information is available electronically through the
state automated child welfare information system, the following non-
identifying information by social services district:

(a) the number of children entering foster care that had previously
been adopted;

(b) the number of families receiving preventive services where at
least one child in the household had previously been adopted; and

(c) for the children and families identified in paragraphs (a) and (b)
of this subdivision, the types of services, including post adoption
services, identified as necessary and appropriate for the child or the
members of the child's family as part of the family assessment service
plan held pursuant to section four hundred nine-e of this article and
the status of such services.

4. (a) The office of children and family services shall submit, and
publish on its website, an annual report to the speaker of the assembly,
the temporary president of the senate and the chairpersons of the senate
and assembly children and families committees starting no later than
September first, two thousand fifteen. Such report shall include data
and information required by subdivision two of this section for the
preceding year, to the extent that such information is available, and
any other information the office of children and family services deems
appropriate. The office of children and family services shall indicate
the extent to which the information collected reflects the total
population described in subdivision two of this section, and identify
any impediments to collecting such information.

(b) Beginning September first, two thousand seventeen, the annual
report required by paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be expanded
to include data and information required by subdivision three of this
section for the preceding year, to the extent that such information is
available, and any other information the office of children and family
services deems appropriate.