Legal Options for Kinship Caregivers in New York State · 1/28/2020 · •Authority: •...
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Legal Options for Kinship Caregivers in New York StatePresented by Kinship Navigator for CTAC
RYAN JOHNSON, MSWASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, NYS KINSHIP NAVIGATORPOLICY COORDINATOR, NYS KINCARE COALITION
March 2020
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Welcome
Thank you to our partners for their collaboration in developing this series.
Webinar Basics• All are muted, please chat in your questions
throughout the webinar. • Slides and recording will be posted on the CTAC
website www.ctacny.org. Look under the Upcoming Events tab for calendar and navigate to the date of the presentation.
Introductions• Ryan Johnson
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Kinship 101: An Introduction to Kinship Care in New York StateTuesday, January 28, 2020https://www.ctacny.org/training/kinship-care-101
Financial Assistance for Kinship CaregiversTuesday, February 11, 2020https://calendar.ctacny.org/event/?id=921
Previous Kinship Webinars
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NYS Kinship Navigator An overview of the services offered by the NYS Kinship
Navigator and information on Custody, Guardianship, Grandparent Visitation, and Financial Benefits
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About Us:
Ryan Johnson, MSW
Associate Director, NYS Kinship Navigator
Policy Coordinator, NYS KinCare Coalition
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TakeawaysKinship Navigator Services
Families First Preventive Services Act – Kinship Navigator Project
Custodial Arrangements
Financial Benefits
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NYS Kinship Navigator Services
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NYS Kinship Navigator
• Information• Legal Fact Sheets
• County Resources
• Helpline
• Referral• Case Management Programs
• Support Groups
• Legal Referral Network
• Education• Statewide Presentations
• Online Video Archive
• Legislative education
• Advocacy• Case by case advocacy
• Statewide advocacy
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NYS Kinship Navigator
• Strategies:• Connections to available financial assistance and legal advocacy
• Partnering with local kinship services and departments of social services
• Centralized information database
Helpline:877-454-6463
Website:www.nysnavigator.org
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Virtual Case Assistance
• Virtual Case Assistance is offered in select counties in New York where there is no “on the ground” help available to kinship families.
• It is a pilot project being developed in conjunction with the Office of Children and Family Services, funded by the Children’s Bureau, and is an attempt to create additional kinship-focused supports for caregivers who may need help applying for benefits, getting connected to community resources, or other types of help.
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Virtual Case Assistance
The project covers Warren, Washington, Saratoga, Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, and Onondaga Counties
• Services provided:• Assignment to a virtual case assistant who will stay with the case for 6 months
• Facilitated benefits applications
• Facilitated referrals
• Extensive follow up from KN and from CHSR• Participants in research study get Walmart gift cards
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Becoming a CaregiverPrivate and Public Kinship Care
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Private Care:No Child Welfare Involvement
• Informal Custody (no court proceeding)
• Persons in Parental Relation
• Parental Designations
• Custody/Guardianship (court proceeding)
• Parents Consent
• Parents Do Not Consent (Extraordinary Circumstances)
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Public Care (Child Welfare Involvement):May Lead to Private Care
• No Removals (no court proceeding)• Alternative Living Arrangements (aka Safety Plans)• Informing about “options”
• Removals (court proceeding)• Abuse/Neglect Proceedings (court)• Informing about “options”• Direct Custody• Foster Care• Exits to Private Care
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Custodial Options for Caregivers
• “Informal Custody”
• Legal Custody
• Legal Guardianship
• Direct Custody
• Foster Care
• KinGAP
• Adoption
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Elements of Care:
1. Recognition, 2. Authority, 3. Security, 4. Assistance
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1. Recognition
1. Terms of Art are Diverse and Not Intuitive (Some examples)• Statutory: acting as a parent (DRL 75), relative caretaker (Surrogate Court)
• Case law: in loco parentis (common law), de facto custody (other states use it)
• Regulatory: alternative living arrangements (NYCRR 430.10)
• Popular: Kinship care
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2. Authority
• Caregiving Decisions• Schooling and School Enrollment
• Medical Care
• Accessing Records
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3. Security
• Protections from Parents• No Court Order – At Risk
• Court Orders
• On Consent
• On Extraordinary Circumstances
• Child Welfare – concerns for kinship foster parents
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4. Assistance
• Financial: access to, and types of benefits
• Resources: access to, and types of benefits
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Informal Custody
• Authority:• Schooling
• Caregiver can enroll (if you have assumed care and control, can prove residence, and child intends to remain)• Department of Education regulation 8 NYCRR 100.2 (y)(3)Section 100.2(y)
• Make schooling decisions in certain circumstances (Edl 3202, 3212 - person in parental relationship)
• Medical• Caregiver may make certain medical decisions: immunization (Public Health Law 2164), emergency (Good Samaritan
Law)
• Records• Caregiver can not access records
• Security: At risk
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Informal Custody
Parental Consent in Writing:• Parental Designation Forms (GOL 1551-55)
• Routine Medical and Educational decision making
• Renewable • One month designation – no notary
• Up to 12 months designation – notary required
• Can be notarized from a different country
• Springing• Can take place upon particular events
• Security: parent can nullify the designation at any time
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Legal Custody
• Legal Custody (Family Court Act Article 6 (aka V-Docket)• Decision making authority comes from a court order
• Court orders can specify what decision making powers the custodian has
• Statutory Authority includes: Medical and Educational decision making
• Security: Parents can petition the court to re-gain custody at any time – would need to show a change in circumstance if child had been removed for safety concerns
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Legal Guardianship
• Legal Guardianship • Decision making power is statutory
• Re: necessary consents, protection, education, care and control, health and medical
• Procedure is more complicated than custody proceedings
• Security: Same as a custodian, a parent can petition the court to regain custody of the child at any time – would need to show change in circumstance if finding of extraordinary circumstances
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Private Adoption
• Adoption• Adoptive parents have full rights and duties of a parent
• Requires a termination/surrender of parental rights
• Caregiver would lose access to financial supports (child only grant/nonparent caregiver grant)
• Security: parents rights are terminated, parents can not get the child back
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Standby Guardianship
• Parents, guardians, legal custodians, and primary caretakers who cannot locate the natural parents, can name a standby guardian via a petition to Family Court or to Surrogate's Court or by a written designation that is witnessed.
• Power is springing: death, debilitation, incapacity, administrative separation
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Safety Plans/Direct Custody
• Safety Plans (Alternative Living Arrangements, Relative Placement) • Authority same as “informal custody” – CPS supervision
• Direct Custody (N-Docket, Article 10, 1017, Temporary Custody)• Physical Custody to the caregiver (child resides in the home of a caregiver)
• Court retains jurisdiction over custodial arrangement of the child
• “Foster care on the cheap” – no foster care support but most of the same responsibilities
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Kinship Foster Care
• Foster Care (Approved/Certified)• Can be an “Emergency Certification” or can convert from a “Direct Custody”
placement
• Foster parent classes required
• Includes ongoing supports like case management, visitation services, child care, foster care subsidies
• Exits to permanency include: Return to Parent, Adoption, KinGAP, Art 6
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Adoption from Foster Care
• Adoption• Adoptive parents have full rights and duties of a parent
• If a child has been adopted as part of a foster care case, then a subsidy may be provided
• Security: parents rights are terminated, parents can not get the child back
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KinGAP
• KinGAP (Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program)• the child and relative are related by blood, marriage, or adoption, the caregiver is the appointed guardian
of a half sibling, or a person who has a positive relationship with the child (fictive kin);
• the child has been in foster care and placed with the relative for at least six previous consecutive months;
• the agency has “ruled out” reunification and adoption (i.e., two permanency goals – return to the parents’ home and adoption – are not possible for the child); FF and PH must be completed
• the agency has decided it is in the child’s best interests for the relative to be the child’s guardian
• Over 14 must consult, over 18 must consent
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Other Related IssuesGrandparent Visitation
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Grandparent Visitation
• Grandparents have the right to ask the court for visitation but not the right to visitation with their grandchildren
• Court to conduct a two-part test:• Does grandparent have standing?
• What is the best interest of the child?
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Contact
Ryan Johnson, MSWAssociate Director
Helpline: 877-454-6463Cell: 585-315-9641
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