Opinion
October 17, 1988
Appeal from the Family Court, Queens County (Ambrosio, J.).
Ordered that the order of disposition is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
Contrary to the appellant's contentions, the Family Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in placing the petitioner in a Title III facility. Our review of the record confirms that the Family Court properly weighed the relative advantages and disadvantages of placing the appellant in a secure facility and concluded, after questioning the quality of the appellant's home supervision, that structured placement would serve the appellant's present needs and best interests (see, Family Ct Act § 352.2; Matter of Katherine W., 62 N.Y.2d 947; Matter of Anthony M., 142 A.D.2d 731). Although the appellant contends otherwise, we are satisfied that the Family Court adopted the least restrictive alternative commensurate with the foregoing concerns under the circumstances presented (Family Ct Act § 352.2). As we have recently observed, "[t]he least restrictive alternative test does not require the court to actually try the lowest form of intervention, have it fail, and then try each succeeding level of intervention before ordering secure placement" (Matter of Anthony M., supra, at 732). Accordingly, it cannot be said that the Family Court improvidently exercised its discretion in ordering the appellant placed in a Title III facility. Mangano, J.P., Weinstein, Kooper and Balletta, JJ., concur.