New York Laws
Article 19-H - Runaway and Homeless Youth Act of Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Eight
532-E - Powers and Duties of the Office of Children and Family Services.

(a) appropriate terminology;
(b) particular challenges for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
runaway and homeless youth, including why lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender youth are disproportionately homeless;
(c) how to address homophobia or transphobia from other youth at the
shelter;
(d) confidentiality in the cases of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender youth; and
(e) how to address the families of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender youth; and
8. in conjunction with the commissioner of education, develop and
annually review a plan to ensure coordination and access to education
for homeless children, in accordance with the provisions of section

thirty-two hundred nine of the education law, and monitor compliance of
residential programs for runaway and homeless youth with such plan.

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