Empire Justice Center Comments on the Early Childhood Advisory Committee’s Strategic Report and Plan
May 25, 2010
Empire Justice Center comments on the Early Childhood Advisory Committee’s Strategic Report and Plan focus on the need to work on addressing the inequities in the child care subsidy system. Read More

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Child Care
Jobs Created Must be Accompanied by Child Care Assistance to be Viable
March 24, 2010
The availability of child care assistance is absolutely critical for New York’s job creation efforts to be successful. Read More

10-OCFS-LCM-01
March 11, 2010
Child Care Market Rates 2009-2011 Read More

Child Care: Legal Issues Affecting Low-Income Parents and Providers
June 12, 2010
This presentation reviews the various types of child care assistance available to low-income families, including public assistance related child care, Transitional Child Care, and subsidies. Read More

Kinship Care: Rights, Authority, Assistance and Resources
May 14, 2008
This three hour course will cover kinship caregiver legal issues offering extensive practical information about legal issues facing grandparents and relatives raising children. Read More

Child Care and Child Support
October 21, 2005
This course covers the fundamentals of the child support requirements for applicants and recipients of child care assistance. Discussions include the active pursuit of child support; good cause exception and determinations; failure to cooperate by applicant or recipient; the child support order; treatment of child support as income; what happens if the non-custodial parent stops paying support; practical difficulties and legal issues that may be raised by petitioners and respondent. Read More