State Plans

Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP)

The New York State Annual Progress and Services Report (APSR) provides an update on the progress made toward accomplishing the goals and objectives in the 2015-2019 Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP), highlights to planned goals, objectives, and activities since the CFSP’s submission and plans going forward. Completion of the APSR satisfies the Federal regulations at 45 CFR 1355 and 1357 by providing updates on the State’s progress over the previous fiscal year and planned activities for the upcoming years. In order for States and Territories to receive Federal Fiscal Year 2016 funds for Title IV-B, Chafee and ETV programs.

• 2019 New York State Annual Progress and Services Report (APSR)
• 2018 New York State Annual Progress and Services Report (APSR)
• 2017 New York State Annual Progress and Services Report (APSR)
• 2016 New York State Annual Progress and Services Report (APSR)

The CFSP is a five-year strategic plan to strengthen New York’s overall child welfare system. This plan integrates programs that serve children and families, including Title IV-B of the Social Security Act, the Chafee Foster Care Independence Programs and Education, and Training Voucher Programs. The CFSP consolidates plans for these programs to comprehensively integrate the array of child welfare services, from prevention and protection to permanency. OCFS updates New York State’s CFSP every five years to receive Title IV-B funding from the United States Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families.

• New York State’s FY 2010 – 2014 Final Report And FY 2015 - 2019 Child and Family Services Plan (2014)

Annual Progress and Services Reports (APSR) provide annual updates on the progress made toward accomplishing the goals and objectives in the CFSP. Each report provides updates on New York’s annual progress for the previous fiscal year, and planned activities for the upcoming fiscal year.

• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010

Title IV-E Plan

Title IV-E of the Social Security Act provides federal funding for foster care, adoption assistance, and kinship guardianship assistance payments and administration that helps provide safe and stable out-of-home care for children until the children are safely returned home, placed permanently with adoptive families, or placed in other planned arrangements for permanency.

• 2018 NYS Title IV-E Plan Amendment (Submittal 18-06)
• 2018 Title IV-E Plan Amendment Pre-Print (Submittal 18-05)
• 2017 New York State Title IV-E Plan Amendment 17-03
• 2015 New York State Title IV-E Plan Amendment 15-03
• 2015 Title IV-E Plan Amendment
• 2013 Comprehensive Title IV-E Plan

Social Services Block Grant

Title XX of the Social Security Act provides funding for social services through the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG). Section 2004 of the SSA requires that, prior to the expenditure by a state of payments made to it under section 2002 of the SSA, the state must report to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) on the intended use of Title XX payments, including information on the types of activities to be supported and the categories and characteristics of individuals to be served.

• Social Services Block Grant Intended Use Report (FFY 2019)
• Social Services Block Grant Intended Use Report (FFY 2018)
• Social Services Block Grant Intended Use Report (FFY 2017)
• Social Services Block Grant Intended Use Report (FFY 2016)
• Social Services Block Grant Intended Use Report (FFY 2015)