§ 481-e. William B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund;\nawarding of grants. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized to issue\ngrants from funds credited to the William B. Hoyt Memorial children and\nfamily trust fund as provided in section four hundred eighty-one-f of\nthis article to public agencies or not-for-profit corporations for the\npurpose of establishing or extending any or all of the following:\n (a) primary prevention programs;\n (b) secondary prevention programs;\n (c) programs which provide services to victims of family violence,\nsuch as establishing temporary shelters and other emergency services;\nprograms which provide or facilitate counseling, or other appropriate\nfollow-up services to victims and their family or household members; and\nany other program deemed helpful in the treatment of victims of family\nviolence.\n 2. (a) Funds shall be awarded in the following manner: forty percent\nfor local child abuse prevention or family resource and support\nprograms, forty percent for local domestic violence prevention or\nservice programs and twenty percent for regional or statewide family\nviolence prevention programs; provided, however, that any unexpended\nportion of such twenty percent as allocated shall be made available for\nlocal family violence prevention programs and provided further, however,\nthat in determining the eligibility of any regional or statewide family\nviolence prevention program or of any local family violence prevention\nprogram for any part of such unexpended portion, the commissioner shall\ngive first consideration to those programs which combine both child\nabuse prevention and domestic violence prevention.\n (b) For a program which combines child abuse prevention and domestic\nviolence prevention, the commissioner shall predetermine, to the extent\nfeasible, the percentage of concentration for each within such program\nand shall apportion the total amount awarded between such forty percent\nallocation in the same proportion.\n 3. No moneys from the fund established pursuant to section four\nhundred eighty-one-f of this article shall be granted for services\nmandated under this chapter. Funds awarded to not-for-profit\ncorporations or public agencies pursuant to the provisions of\nsubdivision one of this section shall not be used to supplant other\nfederal, state or local funds.\n 4. The commissioner, with the advice and recommendations of the\nWilliam B. Hoyt Memorial children and family trust fund advisory board,\nshall issue requests for proposals and specify methods to evaluate the\neffectiveness of proposed programs. Such evaluation shall include but\nnot be limited to the following:\n (a) appropriate accounting and fiscal control procedures which shall\ninclude the filing of an annual financial statement by each provider so\nas to ensure the proper disbursement and accounting for funds received\nby public agencies and not-for-profit corporations for services; and\n (b) appropriate written records regarding the population served and\ntype and extent of services rendered by the provider; and\n (c) confidentiality standards in conformance with appropriate federal\nand state standards so as to ensure the confidentiality of records of\npersons receiving services; and\n (d) nature and quality of services provided and impacts upon the\npopulations and communities served.\n 5. The commissioner shall solicit and shall select proposals for the\nprovision of services funded pursuant to this act. Public agencies and\nnot-for-profit corporations shall be eligible for purposes of\napplication for grants provided for herein and subject to any rules and\nregulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision four of this section.\n 6. The commissioner, with the advice of the William B. Hoyt Memorial\nchildren and family trust fund advisory board, shall publicize the\navailability of funds to be used for purposes of this section. The\ncommissioner shall request, on prescribed fo
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