Serves New York's public by promoting the safety, permanency and well-being of our children, families and communities.
What is the Office of Children and Family Services?
100
Intentional contact (hitting, kicking, shoving, etc.) or corporal punishment.
What is Physical Abuse?
100
Receiving a substantiated category 1 or two substantiated category 2's in a 3 year period place a staff on this.
What is the Staff Exclusion List (SEL)?
100
The unit that has trained call center representatives who collect information from reporters.
What is Intake?
100
This "Code" is intended to assist employees with helping people with special needs "live self-directed, meaningful lives in their communities, free from abuse and neglect, and protected from harm."
What is the Code of Conduct?
200
Operates psychiatric centers across the State, and also regulates, certifies and oversees more than 4,500 programs, which are operated by local governments and nonprofit agencies.
What is the Office of Mental Health?
200
Taunting, name calling, using threatening words or gestures
What is Psychological Abuse?
200
Using, administering or providing any controlled substance contrary to law.
What is a Unlawful Use of a Controlled Substance?
200
This specific number is provided at the end of a report to the VPCR hotline.
What is a confirmation number?
200
Those individuals who can make a report to the VPCR.
Who is anyone?
300
To help people with developmental disabilities live richer lives.
What is the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities?
300
Inappropriate touching, indecent exposure, distributing explicit pictures or voyeurism
What is Sexual Abuse?
300
Unpleasant physical stimulus used to modify behavior without person-specific legal authorization.
What is Aversive Conditioning?
300
For criminal cases, this may be pursued.
What is Prosecution?
300
Develop accessible, innovative and effective training and informational materials.
What is the Training and Development Unit?
400
Mission is to raise the knowledge, skill, and opportunity of all the people in New York.
What is the New York State Education Department?
400
Number of categories for a Substantiated finding.
What is four (4)?
400
Interfering with the discovery, reporting or investigation of abuse / neglect, falsifying records or intentionally making false statements
What is Obstruction?
400
The letter received at the conclusion of an investigation.
What is a Determination Letter?
400
Collects materials and documents for the purpose of an investigation.
Who is an Investigator?
500
Improve the lives of all New Yorkers by leading a comprehensive premier system of addiction services for prevention, treatment, and recovery.
What is the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services?
500
Use of these interventions with excessive force, as a punishment or for the convenience of staff.
What is Deliberate misuse of restraint or seclusion?
500
An incident with the potential to result in harm to the health, safety or welfare of a person receiving services.
What is a Significant Incident?
500
Subjects have the right to challenge the findings of an investigation when a determination has been substantiated against them.
What is an Administrative Appeal?
500
This unit conducts evaluations of all Corrective Action Plans.