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The New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) is an agency of the New York state government. [1] [2] The office has its headquarters in the Capital View Office Park in Rensselaer. [3] Along with the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance it is part of the pro forma Department of Family Assistance.
The Welfare Reform Act of 1997 (the state response to the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996) created two programs, Family Assistance (FA) and Safety Net Assistance (SNA), to be state-directed and county-administered implementations of the constitutional mandate to aid, care and support the needy.
The New York State Department of Family Assistance may refer to: the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS)
The New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (Police) are employed as Safety and Security Officers. They are prohibited by New York State Law and (OPWDD) policy to use or carry a firearm, but do carry a expandable baton , handcuffs , mace , bulletproof vests , flashlight , and a radio that is directly linked to other ...
As an English colony, New York's social services were based on the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1598-1601, in which the poor who could not work were cared for in a poorhouse. Those who could were employed in a workhouse. The first Poorhouse in New York was created in the 1740s, and was a combined Poorhouse, Workhouse, and House of Corrections.
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Boroughs do not currently exist elsewhere in the state. Each of the five boroughs of the city is coextensive with a county of the state of New York. [8] Under New York State's General Municipal Law, a borough results when the towns, villages and cities in a county merge with the county itself.
The department was established in 1926–1927 with the original name being Office of mental hygiene; as part of a restructuring of the New York state government, and was given responsibility for people diagnosed with mental retardation, mental illness or epilepsy.