Not exact matches
A person under the age of 21
whose care and custody have been transferred prior to such person's eighteenth birthday to a
social services official or a voluntary authorized
agency either as an adjudicated abused or neglected child or a voluntarily placed child,
whose parents are deceased or where one parent is deceased and the other parent is not a person entitled to notice to the adoption proceeding and where such official or
agency consents to the adoption of such person in accordance with law.
Post adoption
services in New York are provided by the local
social services district or a voluntary authorized
agency whose services have been purchased by OCFS or the local
social services district in which the adoptive parents reside.
Finding therapeutic help for children with emotional, behaviour and mental health problems can be found by contacting an independent play therapist or practitioner (for which you will have to pay a fee) or by using a therapist
whose services are fully or partly funded by local authority children's, education,
social, or health
services, a charity or some other
agency.