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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 resources to assist parents with their child care needs, individuals with concerns regarding the health or safety of a child in a day care program and individuals involved in running or initiating a day care program. Oversees Licenses and Monitors Daycare and Home based Daycare Facilities. Offers online information including a Child Care Facility Search feature which provides a listing of regulated child care providers in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. There is also an online screening tool to help parents determine their eligibility for financial support from the state's Child Care Assistance Program for low or no-cost child care.

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Child Care Provider Referrals
Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Complaints
Child Care Expense Assistance
Child Care Provider Licensing
Provides list of registered and licensed child care providers for parents who are looking for child care. Assists individuals who want to become registered, licensed, or legally exempt providers in child care. Provides child care training for child care providers.

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Facility Licensing
Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Provider Referrals
Provides list of registered and licensed child care providers. Assists individuals who want to become registered or licensed in child care.

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Facility Licensing
Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Provider Referrals
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 Licensing
Child Care Expense Assistance
Child Care Provider Referrals
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 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 referrals to parents seeking registered child care provider information. Also provides information regarding regulated child care and child care subsidy funds to parents. Provides regulatory over site of registered day care/child care programs, support and guidance of registration and application process and assisting child care providers with training and technical assistance. Administers the CACFP program which provides nutrition and meal planning education services and meal reimbursement to family day care providers.

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Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Provider Referrals
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 Expense Assistance
Facility Licensing
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
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.
Inspects and registers New York State Office of Children and Family Services family day care and school age child care programs. Provides technical assistance and ongoing monitoring of programs to ensure compliance with state regulations.

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Licensing / Certification / Accreditation
Organizational Consultation / Technical Assistance
Child Care Issues
Child Care Provider Licensing
Licenses over 800,000 individuals including real estate brokers, notaries, private investigators, and appearance enhancement professionals. Through its licensing and business filing capacities the division promotes business growth while protecting the health, safety, and welfare of all New Yorkers.

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Occupational / Professional Licensing and Certification
Business Registration / Licensing
Planning / Coordinating / Advisory Groups
State Government Agencies / Departments
Licensing / Certification / Accreditation
Occupational / Professional Licensing Development
Facility Licensing
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 Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Home Placement
Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
Foster Home Licensing
*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
Provides support for people and organizations that are interested in starting day care programs in their communities.

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Child Care Provider Licensing
Child Care Provider Recruitment
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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Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Home Licensing
Permanency Planning for Foster Youth
Postadoption Counseling and Support
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Adoption Information/Referrals
Adoption Evaluation/Placement
Specialized Adoption Programs
Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
Preadoptive Foster Care
Preadoption Counseling and Support
Adoption Expense Assistance
Information and Referral
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
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 Provider Licensing
Child Care Provider Associations
Child Care Provider Training
Child Care Complaints
Information and Referral
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
Information and Referral
Child Care 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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Child Care Provider Referrals
Child Care Provider Licensing
Child Care Complaints
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
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 Care Provider Referrals
Child and Adult Care Food Programs
* 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 Expense Assistance
Facility 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 Expense Assistance
Facility Licensing