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OCFS Regions of New York State
For adminstrative purposes, the Office of Children and Family Services has New York divided up into six regions, organized by county.
The regions and their counties are as follows.
- Region 1: Buffalo
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The counties in Region 1 are: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming
- Region 2: Rochester
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The counties in Region 2 are: Cayuga,Chemung, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne and Yates
- Region 3: Syracuse
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The counties in Region 3 are: Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson , Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Tioga and Tompkins
- Region 4: Albany
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The counties in Region 4 are: Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren and Washington
- Region 5: Westchester
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The counties in Region 5 are: Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester
- Region 6: New York City
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The counties in Region 6 are: Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond
Regions for the Division of Child Care Services
The Division of Child Care Services uses the same regions as other OCFS programs, except that Nassau and Suffolk are broken out into Region 7: Long Island.
For all other OCFS programs these two counties are part of the Westchester region (Region 5).