New York Consolidated Laws, Social Services Law - SOS § 410-p. Definitions

1. “Agency” shall mean a not-for-profit corporation or group of not-for-profit corporations.  With respect to any county for which no appropriate not-for-profit corporation or group of corporations has submitted a proposal, such term shall mean a statewide or regional not-for-profit corporation which establishes such a corporation or shall mean a local governmental entity which provides the services authorized by this title;

2. “Resource and referral program” shall mean an agency funded pursuant to this title to provide services specified in section four hundred ten-r of this title within a defined geographic area;

3. “Early childhood services” shall mean services which include, but are not limited to, registered, certified or licensed care in family day care homes, group family day care homes, school-age child care programs;  head start programs, day care centers;  child care which may be provided without a permit, certificate or registration in accordance with this statute;  early childhood education programs approved by the state education department;  and care provided in a children's camp as defined in section one thousand four hundred of the public health law;

4. “Required resource and referral services” shall mean those services listed in subdivision one of section four hundred ten-q of this title which must be provided by each child care resource and referral program to parents and other guardians, child care and early childhood services providers, employers and communities within the geographic area served by the program, to the extent funds are available for such services;

5. “Enhanced services” shall mean additional or more intensive levels of services as listed in subdivision two of section four hundred ten-q of this title, which an agency agrees to provide in order to receive additional funding pursuant to this title;

6. “Parent” or “Parents” shall mean and include biological and adoptive parents, guardians or other persons in parental relationship to a child.