Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Hawaii Public Housing Authority › Chapter 2026 - HOMELESS PROGRAMS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 17-2026-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"Administrative costs" means costs for general management,
					 oversight, coordination, evaluation, and reporting of contracted
					 Services.
"AIDS" means acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome.
"Applicant" means a family or individual who applies for
					 participation in any program for the homeless under this chapter.
"Application" means the form used by a provider agency to
					 obtain applicant Information to determine whether an applicant is eligible to
					 participate in any of the programs under this chapter.
"At-risk homeless" means families or individuals who are
					 in jeopardy of becoming homeless within the next forty-five days or are being
					 discharged within forty-five days from institutions, not including prisons or
					 jails, in which they have been residents for more than thirty consecutive days;
					 and
(1) No subsequent residences have been identified;
					 and
(2) They lack the resources and support networks needed to
					 obtain access to housing.
"Client costs" means costs directly benefiting a
					 participant, through subsidy or purchase of Services or supplies, which the
					 participant receives directly.
"Corporation" means the housing and Community development
					 corporation of Hawaii.
"Emergency shelter" means a homeless facility designed to
					 provide temporary shelter and appropriate and available Services to homeless
					 families or individuals for up to six weeks. Emergency shelters are
					 characterized by their short-term, walk-in nature, with the option for
					 participants to enter into a case plan upon entry and Community living
					 quarters.
"Executive director" means the executive director of the
					 corporation or the executive director's designated representative.
"Facility Operator" means an Organization managing or
					 operating a homeless facility pursuant to the stipend program and may include
					 the corporation or a provider agency.
"Family" means:
(1) Two or more persons who live or intend to live together
					 as a unit, one of whom is a dependent, under nineteen years of age, related by
					 blood, marriage, or Operation of law, including foster children and hanai
					 children; or
(2) A person who is pregnant or in the process of securing
					 legal custody of a minor child or children.
"Grant program" means the State homeless emergency loans
					 and grants program.
"Hanai child" means a person, under nineteen years of age,
					 for whom an applicant has provided food, nourishment, and support and who is
					 known as the applicant's child among friends, relatives, and the
					 Community.
"House rules" means rules which provide for the internal
					 management of a homeless facility and which participants are required to
					 follow.
"HRS" means the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
"Intake" means the form used by provider agencies to
					 obtain participant Information to coordinate or deliver effective supportive
					 Services, including but not limited to demographic Information.
"Operating costs" means non -personnel costs directly
					 related to the Operation and maintenance of a homeless facility or project
					 under the State homeless programs and to the purchase of contracted
					 Services.
"Outreach program" means the State homeless outreach
					 program.
"Participant" means a family or individual that is
					 determined eligible for and receives shelter or Services in any program for the
					 homeless under this chapter.
"Personnel costs" means the costs incurred for Operations
					 or social Services personnel in the Provision of contracted Services and
					 includes salaries and wages, payroll taxes, and fringe benefits.
"Program" refers to any one of the State homeless
					 programs.
"Program agreement" means all written agreements or
					 documents which establish or modify the terms, conditions, rules, regulations,
					 or any other provisions concerning the occupancy and participation at a
					 homeless facility.
"Program assistance" means any emergency loan or grant
					 authorized under the grant program.
"Program fees" means the consideration charged by facility
					 Operators to participants in payment for shelter and Services at a homeless
					 facility and may be considered rent for the purposes of welfare
					 benefits.
"Sheltered homeless" means families or individuals
who:
(1) Lack a fixed, regular, and adequate. night-time
					 residence; and
(2) Have a primary night-time residence that is a
					 supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary
					 living accommodations or that is an Institution that provides a temporary
					 residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized and not to include
					 prisons or jails.
"Social Services agreement" means the agreement signed
					 between a provider agency and a participant which outlines specific terms and
					 conditions the participant must satisfy in order to continue participation in
					 the program.
"Special needs" refers to the homeless population that
					 have particular needs, including but not limited to substance abusers, persons
					 with mental illness, persons with HIV/AIDS, the elderly, the physically
					 challenged, and runaway/throwaway youth.
"Stipend program" means the State homeless shelter stipend
					 program.
"Supportive Services" means Services that are designed to
					 address the needs of a participant, including but not limited to, case
					 management, job training, housing search assistance and counseling, educational
					 classes, life skills training, child care, transportation, and substance abuse
					 counseling.
"Transitional shelter" means a homeless facility designed
					 to provide temporary shelter and appropriate and available social Services to
					 homeless families or individuals for up to twenty-four months.
"Unsheltered homeless" means families or individuals who
					 have a primary night-time residence that is a public or private place not
					 designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human
					 beings, including beaches, parks, automobiles, and streets.