Resources for Special Medical Needs Children
Parenting a child with special medical needs requires patience, planning, information and resources. This video of a father of a medically fragile child offers links to important resources, and suggestions on meeting your child’s special needs.
Bridges to Health
Bridges to Health (B2H) is a Medicaid Waiver Program that provides supportive, wrap around and after care services to children, youth and adolescents, their birth, foster and adoptive parents and siblings in the home in their communities.
Resources and Information for Families
This is an online directory of information and resources that will help meet the various needs of families receiving services through ACS or our provider agencies.
Education Resources
Provide CPS staff and our partner agencies access to information that helps you in meeting the educational needs of the children we serve.
Consulate Guide
This is a technical assistance guide on how to access documents, including foreign birth certificates and passports from the top ten consulates from which most requests for birth certificates and other documentation are made part of the SIJS process.
Summary of Policies and Procedures
The Summary of Policies and Procedures Newsletter contains a complete list and brief description of policies, procedures and memorandums issued by the ACS Policy and Procedures Unit. (Files in PDF)
If you cannot access the links to these documents, contact the Policies and Procedures Unit at 212-341-2858.
Resource Directory of Youth Workforce Development Services in New York City (PDF)
The Administration for Children’s Services, FEGS, and New York City Education and Training Coalition (NYCETC) have collaborated on a project: Building Bridges: Connecting the Foster Care and Workforce Communities to Support Positive Outcome for Youth.
The objective is to increase the employment opportunities for youth in foster care and for those transitioning out of foster care by improving the connections and collaborations between foster care providers and community-based workforce development providers. Enclosed is a resource directory of youth servicing agencies that are within NYCETC network of workforce development providers.
Child Welfare Fiscal Manual
The Child Welfare Fiscal Manual is an online resource for Preventive and Foster Care provider agencies regarding topics including but not limited to budget, payment, financial records, reporting, invoicing, allowable use of funds, cost allocation plans and audits. Please refer to this website for the most current version of the Child Welfare Fiscal Manual.
CHILD WELFARE FISCAL MANUAL»
EarlyLearn NYC Fiscal Manual (draft)
Effective October 1, 2012
A draft of the EarlyLearn NYC Fiscal Manual is now available online. The draft manual includes topics such as budget, payment, financial reporting and records, invoicing, UPK, cost allocation and audit. Updates to this draft manual will be posted periodically. Please refer to this website for the most current draft version of the EarlyLearn NYC Fiscal Manual.
EarlyLearn NYC Fiscal Manual»
Close to Home Non-Secure Placement Fiscal Manual 
The Close to Home Non Secure Placement (NSP) Fiscal Manual is a reference tool for provider agencies. Topics include but are not limited to: budget, payment, reporting, financial management, and audit. Please refer to this website for the most current version of the Fiscal Manual.
Close to Home NSP Fiscal Manual>>
Community Partnership Program Fiscal Manual (PDF)
The Community Partnership Program Fiscal Manual is an online resource for Community Partnership Program provider agencies. The Fiscal Manual includes but is not limited to the following topics: budget, payment, fiscal records, reporting, invoicing, allowable use of funds, cost allocation plans and audits. Please refer to this website for the most current version of the Community Partnership Program Fiscal Manual.
