{"id":7,"date":"2021-09-13T14:09:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onondaga.gov\/aps\/aps\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:20:35","slug":"aps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onondaga.gov\/aps\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_afb5b4-e0, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_afb5b4-e0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7_afb5b4-e0\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_afb5b4-e0 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_afb5b4-e0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7_afb5b4-e0\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h3 class=\"kt-adv-heading7_afb5b4-e0 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7_afb5b4-e0\">Adult Protective Services (APS) is a state-mandated service provided by every county with the goal of keeping vulnerable adults (persons 18 years of age and older) safely residing in the community. It involves intake, investigation, and assessment of referrals of abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of qualifying vulnerable adults.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>APS workers develop services plans with eligible clients to remedy physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, or to address unmet needs of adults that meet all New York State criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Have a mental or physical impairment; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are at risk of harm, whether by their own or others\u2019 actions, or have an unmet need; <strong>and<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have no one able and willing to responsibly assist<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_317c26-87, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_317c26-87[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7_317c26-87\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_317c26-87 mark.kt-highlight, 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intervention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_a32d60-a9, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_a32d60-a9[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7_a32d60-a9\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_a32d60-a9 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7_a32d60-a9[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7_a32d60-a9\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading7_a32d60-a9 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7_a32d60-a9\">Adults have the right to self-determination (unless found to be medically incompetent by two physicians or legally incapacitated by a court) and have the right to live in the least restrictive safe 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