N.Y. Social Services Law 459-C – Non-residential services for victims of domestic violence
§ 459-c. Non-residential services for victims of domestic violence. 1. In accordance with the provisions of this section and the regulations of the department, a social services district shall offer and provide non-residential services including but not limited to, information and referral services, advocacy, counseling, community education and outreach activities, and hotline services, to a victim of domestic violence whether or not the victim is eligible for public assistance. A social services district may provide such non-residential services directly or may purchase such services from a not-for-profit organization operating a residential program and/or a non-residential program for victims of domestic violence.
Terms Used In N.Y. Social Services Law 459-C
- Non-residential program for victims of domestic violence: means any program operated by a not-for-profit organization, for the purpose of providing non-residential services to victims of domestic violence, including, but not limited to, information and referral services, advocacy, counseling, and community education and outreach activities and providing or arranging for hotline services. See N.Y. Social Services Law 459-A
- Victim of domestic violence: means any person over the age of sixteen, any married person or any parent accompanied by his or her minor child or children in situations in which such person or such person's child is a victim of an act which would constitute a violation of the penal law, including, but not limited to acts constituting disorderly conduct, harassment, aggravated harassment, sexual misconduct, forcible touching, sexual abuse, stalking, criminal mischief, menacing, reckless endangerment, kidnapping, assault, attempted assault, attempted murder, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, strangulation, identity theft, grand larceny or coercion; and
(i) such act or acts have resulted in actual physical or emotional injury or have created a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm to such person or such person's child; and
(ii) such act or acts are or are alleged to have been committed by a family or household member. See N.Y. Social Services Law 459-A
2. To the extent that funds are appropriated expressly therefore and a social services district has exhausted its allocation under title XX of the federal social security act, state reimbursement shall be available for fifty percent of the expenditures made by a social services district for those non-residential services provided to victims of domestic violence which are included in the social services district's multi-year consolidated services plans and annual implementation reports approved by the department pursuant to section thirty-four-a of this chapter.