But Edwin Méndez-Santhego, the commissioner of the Department for the Aging, said the remaining centers would receive more meal money for the diverted clients.
They said they were not worried about diverting clients who typically pay twice as much for similarly styled pieces, custom-made with somewhat better materials.
This means that the city already had infrastructures in place for diverting clients from the criminal justice system to the treatment system before the reforms.
In these areas, the newly created case processing system for diverting clients under Article 216 of the DLRA may have had a more significant impact on providers' everyday practices.
dIn 2009, Article 216 of the Penal Law went into effect as part of the DLRA, giving judges, for the first time, the power to divert clients into treatment without the consent of the prosecutor.
Although Article 216 of the DLRA created an entirely new category of court-mandated client and a completely new court process for diverting clients into treatment, these changes occurred largely without input from and with little apparent effect on treatment providers.
For one, if you are well known professionally as an employee of a particular company, the company may not want you to divert prospective clients to a site other than its own.
You can't ask LEAD to be responsible for improving the services that they divert their clients to, but it's clearly a flaw in the system.
These categories included issues related to the process of receiving clients judicially diverted into treatment, the assessment and treatment of criminal justice mandated clients, and the relationship dynamics involved in collaborating with court employees in the post-reform era.
The charity, it said, misused funds to pay for luxury items for clients that "diverted" money from other projects.
