N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 18 § 455.7
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) General requirements. The term staff, as used in this section, means compensated employees and volunteers of the domestic violence sponsoring agency.(b) Staff/resident ratios. (1) There must be at a minimum one employee who is designated director of the domestic violence sponsoring agency and who is responsible for the general management and administration of the domestic violence sponsoring agency and domestic violence safe dwelling program. The director is responsible for the supervision of volunteers or for the designation of an employee to supervise volunteers. (2) Each domestic violence sponsoring agency must provide a sufficient number of staff to supervise the general management of each domestic violence safe dwelling in order to ensure that the safe dwelling is maintained in a safe and sanitary condition, to supervise sponsoring agency volunteers and to ensure the delivery of core emergency services specified in 452.12 of this Title to all eligible residents.(3) Each domestic violence sponsoring agency must have, at a minimum, one employee or volunteer of the domestic violence sponsoring agency on call at all times to provide crisis intervention, counseling and information and referral as set forth in section 452.12(a) of this Title. (4) Whenever residents are being sheltered, each domestic violence sponsoring agency must have a sufficient number of competent staff, onsite or on call at all times, to respond to resident needs and emergency situations. The telephone number for residents to call in an emergency must be posted nearby a telephone as specified in section 455.8(c) of this Part.(5) During regular business hours when there are residents being sheltered, the following minimum number of staff must be on duty which at a minimum includes one employee: Range of Number of Residents | Minimum number of staff |
1-9 | 1 staff person |
10-21 | 2 staff persons |
22-33 | 3 staff persons |
34-45 | 4 staff persons |
46+ | For each additional increment of 12 residents over 46, one additional staff person must be added upon entering the next range of the number of residents. |
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 18 § 455.7
Adopted New York State Register April 1, 2020/Volume XLII, Issue 13, eff. 4/1/2020