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*Registers and assists individuals who wish to provide registered family day care or school-age child care services under contract to OCDSS.

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Child Care Providers
Facility Licensing
Assists individuals interested in operating a school-age or family child care program with New York State registration or enrollment requirements. Offers child care provider training and technical assistance. Sponsors child care provider participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
* Offers information and referral to individuals looking to become child care providers, including help with licensing. Also provides customized referrals to parents about child care providers that are licensed in the area.

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Facility Licensing
Child Care Expense Assistance
Child Care Provider Referrals
Licenses and monitors child care providers and facilities. Provides support for people and organizations who are interested in starting child day care programs in their communities. Offers a Child Care Facility Search online that allows individuals to search for New York State regulated providers by name or location (county or zip code). Searching by different types of care, such as family day care or day care centers, is also possible. Facility listings include contact information, address, capacity, and the current status of its license or registration.

Child Care Facility Search can be found at http://ocfs.ny.gov/main/childcare/ccfs_template.asp

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Child Care Complaints
Facility Licensing
Child Care Provider Associations
Child Care Instruction
Information and Referral
Provides program registration and support services for family child care and school-age child care programs in St. Lawrence County.
* Offers information and referral to individuals looking to become child care providers, including help with licensing. Also provides customized referrals to parents about child care providers that are licensed in the area.

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Facility Licensing
Child Care Expense Assistance
Child Care Provider Referrals
* Provides a range of resources to help parents with their child care needs, people who want to start or are currently running child care programs, and anyone with a concern about the health or safety of a child in a day care program.
Provides placement of children (birth-18 yrs) and provision of support services for family and child when child assessed and determined to be in need of out-of-home Foster care. Provides Foster Home Licensing.

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Foster Home Licensing
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
Foster Home Placement
Provides support for people and organizations that are interested in starting day care programs in their communities.

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Child Care Provider Recruitment
Child Care Provider Licensing
Licenses and monitors child care providers and facilities. Provides support for people and organizations who are interested in starting child day care programs in their communities. Offers a Child Care Facility Search online that allows individuals to search for New York State regulated providers by name or location (county or zip code). Searching by different types of care, such as family day care or day care centers, is also possible. Facility listings include contact information, address, capacity, and the current status of its license or registration.

Child Care Facility Search can be found at http://ocfs.ny.gov/main/childcare/ccfs_template.asp

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Child Care Complaints
Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Provider Associations
Information and Referral
Child Care Provider Licensing
Assists individuals interested in operating a school-age or family child care program with New York State registration or enrollment requirements. Offers child care provider training and technical assistance. Sponsors child care provider participation in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.
* Offers information and referral to individuals looking to become child care providers, including help with licensing. Also provides customized referrals to parents about child care providers that are licensed in the area.

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Facility Licensing
Child Care Expense Assistance
Child Care Provider Referrals
Provides temporary care to children who are unable to remain with their family. Caseworkers provide the services and support necessary to reunite the family. If a child cannot safely to return to their family, the agency works to develop a permanent plan for the child.

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Specialized Adoption Programs
Intensive Family Reunification Services
Information and Referral
Adoption Information/Referrals
Preadoptive Foster Care
Adoption Evaluation/Placement
Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Permanency Planning for Foster Youth
Foster Home Licensing
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Independent Living Skills Instruction
* Provides a range of resources to help parents with their child care needs, people who want to start or are currently running child care programs, and anyone with a concern about the health or safety of a child in a day care program.

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Facility Licensing
Child Care Instruction
Child Care Complaints
Provides detailed information about adoptions and New York State's foster care system and the needs of children in temporary out-of-home placement. Helps interested individuals go through the fostering or adoption process and provides information and supports for families with foster or adopted children in the home.

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Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
Foster Home Licensing
Preadoption Counseling and Support
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Permanency Planning for Foster Youth
Adoption Expense Assistance
Specialized Adoption Programs
Adoption Information/Referrals
Preadoptive Foster Care
Adoption Evaluation/Placement
Postadoption Counseling and Support
Information and Referral
Recruits foster families to care for children placed in foster care. Provides extensive training and reimbursement to help with the expenses while a child is in your home. Call for more detailed information.
Provides a one-stop resource for child care needs. Offers child care resources and referral, child care licensing and registration, training and education for child care providers, and administers the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

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Information and Referral
Child Care Provider Licensing
Child Care Provider Training
Child and Adult Care Food Programs
Child Care Provider Referrals
Supports and promotes the development of quality, accessible, and affordable child care services in Oswego County. Assists parents searching for child care with registration and enrollment for home-based child care and school age programs. Offers training and technical assistance for parents and providers.

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Organizational Consultation/Technical Assistance
Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Provider Licensing
* Offers information and referral to individuals looking to become child care providers, including help with licensing. Also provides customized referrals to parents about child care providers that are licensed in the area.

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Facility Licensing
Child Care Expense Assistance
Child Care Provider Referrals
Provides a range of resources to help parents with their child care needs, people who want to start or are currently running child care programs, and anyone with a concern about the health or safety of a child in a day care program.

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Child Care Provider Referrals
Child Care Provider Licensing
Child Care Complaints
Units recruit, train, study, approve/certify, develop, retain, and re-approve/re-certify foster and adoptive families. To inquire about becoming a foster and/or adoptive parent, please call 516–227-7613. Call Foster and Adoptive Resource Development at 516-227-8291 and Homefinding at 516-227-8284 for more detailed information.

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Foster Home Licensing
Foster Parent / Family Recruitment
Adoption / Foster Care Issues
Provides child care referrals, child care subsidies, provider training and career counseling, administers child and adult care food program, registrar for family day care and school age programs, enrollment of legally exempt child care providers, and technical assistance to employers regarding child care services.

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Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Provider Referrals
Child Care Expense Assistance
Child Care Provider Licensing
Offers information and referral to individuals looking to become child care providers, including help with licensing. Also provides customized referrals to parents about child care providers that are licensed in the area.

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Child Care Provider Referrals
Child Care Provider Licensing
Provides information about child care options, how to evaluate care, referrals to programs that may meet individual needs, other parent education materials and other financial options. Offers small business start-up assistance, training and technical assistance, mini grants, reimbursement for food costs and home and center visitations to child care providers. Also provides demographic information, child care supply and demand, policy planning and development. Parents in Steuben County may take advantage of a subsidy program to help with the cost of child care.

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Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Provider Referrals
Child Care Expense Assistance
Child Care Provider Licensing
Provides child care referrals, child care subsidies, provider training and career counseling, administers child and adult care food program, registrar for family day care and school age programs, enrollment of legally exempt child care providers, and technical assistance to employers regarding child care services.

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Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Provider Referrals
Child Care Expense Assistance
Child Care Provider Licensing