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Investigates, assesses and protects children when there is a suspicion of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Caseworkers monitor and arrange for necessary rehabilitative services to families in need.
* Oversees the proceedings in order to ensure that the assets of the estate are managed and distributed in accordance with New York State law and/or the decedent's wishes.* Surrogate's Court also has jurisdiction in adoption proceedings.

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Adoption Courts
Public Guardianship/Conservatorship Programs
Probate Courts
Trust Administration
Helps locate and engage caring adults to create lifetime networks for disconnected youth.
Protective Services for adults over the age of 18 whose health and safety is at imminent risk and who are unable to meet their own basic needs and have no one willing or able to assist them.

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Family Violence Prevention
Adult Protective Services
Representative Payee Services
Provides protective service to impaired adults living in the community with unmet needs and who have no one to assist them. Also receives and responds to all reports of children who are abused, abandoned, or neglected, and carries out the statutory mandates of protecting children and providing rehabilitative services to families.

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Children's Protective Services
Adult Protective Services
Child Abuse Hotlines
Serves as court appointed Article 81 Guardians of incapacitated people.
Ensures youth are in a safe environment

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Permanency Planning for Foster Youth
Parenting Skills Classes
Family Maintenance/Reunification
Investigates and intervenes on behalf of adults who are unable to act on their own behalf, manage their own affairs, or who are in immediate danger. Responds and investigates reports of adult and child abuse or neglect. Ongoing supervision for those at risk of abuse is also available. Financial representative payee, Financial exploitation investigations, Aid services for the Medicaid eligible are also provided.

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Adult Protective Intervention / Investigation
Child Abuse Reporting / Emergency Response
Elder / Dependent Adult Abuse Reporting
Family Maintenance / Reunification
Investigates and intervenes on behalf of adults who are unable to act on their own behalf, manage their own affairs, or who are in immediate danger. Responds and investigates reports of adult and child abuse or neglect. Ongoing supervision for those at risk of abuse is also available. Financial representative payee, Financial exploitation investigations, Aid services for the Medicaid eligible are also provided.

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Adult Protective Intervention / Investigation
Child Abuse Reporting / Emergency Response
Elder / Dependent Adult Abuse Reporting
Family Maintenance / Reunification
Accepts reports of suspected child abuse or maltreatment.

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Child Abuse Reporting / Emergency Response
Provides case management services to assist families in staying together when a child is at risk of entering foster care and/or to hasten the return home of children in foster care. May include referrals for supportive services such as child care assistance (income guidelines may apply).
Provides services to county residents in various aspects of the family needs, child preventive and protective services and adult protective and personal care aide services.

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Children's Protective Services
Adult Protective Services
Personal Care
Provides court-ordered guardianship services for incapacitated individuals unable to make decisions, due to age or disability, in their own best interest concerning their personal care and/or finances.

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Guardianship Assistance
Adult Protective Services
Provides protective service to impaired adults living in the community with unmet needs and who have no one to assist them. Also receives and responds to all reports of children who are abused, abandoned, or neglected, and carries out the statutory mandates of protecting children and providing rehabilitative services to families.

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Children's Protective Services
Adult Protective Services
Child Abuse Hotlines
Provides services to assist adults age 18 or older who, because of physical or mental impairments, can no longer provide for their basic needs for food, clothing, shelter or medical care, or protect themselves from neglect, abuse or hazardous situations, and have no one willing and/or able to help in a responsible manner.
Provides services to assist adults age 18 or older who, because of physical or mental impairments, can no longer provide for their basic needs for food, clothing, shelter or medical care, or protect themselves from neglect, abuse or hazardous situations, and have no one willing and/or able to help in a responsible manner.
Offers a therapeutic, family-based prevention and intervention program that averages 12-16 sessions and is intended to improve mental health outcomes for at risk adolescents and their families. Serves adjudicated adolescents, ages 11 to 16 years, and their families, or families who are at risk of their children being placed in foster care because of abuse and/or neglect.

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Family Counseling
Family Maintenance/Reunification
Community residence for adolescent males and females who are in need of a structured setting in the community that enables them to become involved in the responsibilities of daily living due to a serious emotional disturbance (SED).

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Children's Protective Services
Transitional Housing / Shelter
Case / Care Management
Offers many agencies and organizations available to assist victims of elder abuse and neglect. To find assistance, please call the Suffolk County Office for the Aging. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, please call 911.

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Elder Abuse Counseling
Senior Advocacy Groups
Adult Protective Intervention / Investigation
Provides the services, and information to help children who may be in danger, due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment, or have serious emotional or behavioral challenges.

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Children's Protective Services
Central Intake / Assessment for Mental Health Services
Orange County contracts with Merakey to provide crisis intervention, casework support, parent advocacy, housing advocacy, economic independence referrals, courtesy home studies, and information and referral information for families in need of assistance.
Offers New York State mandated reporters the following courses: Mandated Reporter Training: The Recognition and Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect, and SAVE (Safe Schools Against Violence in Education. Call for more information.

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Child Abuse Volunteer Opportunities
Child Care Provider Training
Child Abuse Reporting / Emergency Response
Receives and responds to all reports of child abuse and maltreatment on a 24-hour basis. CPS carries out the statutory mandates of protecting children and providing rehabilitative services to families.
Provides services to assist adults ages 18 years and older who, because of physical or mental impairments, can no longer provide for their basic needs for food, clothing shelter or medical care, or protect themselves from neglect, abuse or hazardous situations, and have no one willing and/or able to help in a responsible manner.

Also coordinates after-hours homeless emergencies in St. Lawrence County. For emergency homelessness, please contact the county Sheriff's department at 315-379-2222.

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Elder Abuse Prevention
Adult Protective Services
At Risk/Homeless Housing Related Assistance Programs
Offers protective services in cases where an adult is at risk of harm and has no one who is able to responsibly assist them.