Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 101 CMR - EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Title 101 CMR 429.00 - Rates for Certain Sexual and Domestic Violence Services › Section 429.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
As used in
				101 CMR
				429.00, unless the context requires otherwise, terms
				have the meanings in
				101
				CMR 429.02.
Client
. An individual that receives
				certain sexual and domestic violence services purchased by a governmental
				unit.
Cost Report
. The document used to
				report costs and other financial and statistical data. The Uniform Financial
				Statements and Independent Auditor's Report (UFR) is used when required.
Domestic Violence Community-based
				Services
. The Domestic Violence (DV) programs, which include
				supervised visitation and Child Witness to Violence, offer an array of services
				to survivors of domestic violence and their families. Domestic violence
				providers help victims of verbal abuse, financial abuse, emotional, sexual, and
				physical abuse by delivering specialized direct services and access to
				community resources.
EOHHS
. The Executive Office of Health
				and Human Services established under M.G.L. c. 6A.
Extraordinary Circumstances/Flex
				Funding
. A method whereby, subject to availability, a purchasing
				governmental unit may provide resource allocations to a client and/or provider
				across the state. Flexible funding may be provided through a number of means
				including, but not limited to, reimbursement to client for specific support
				services or funds directed to a qualified provider for extraordinary
				circumstances.
Governmental Unit
. The Commonwealth,
				any board, commission, department, division, or agency of the Commonwealth and
				any political subdivision of the Commonwealth.
Housing Stabilization Flexible
				Funding
. An additional support to survivors of domestic violence
				who are not eligible for other assistance and/or have exhausted other
				assistance available to them for the stabilization of current housing and/or
				securing more permanent housing.
Individual Consideration (I.C.)
.
				Payment rates for certain services are designated as individual consideration
				(I.C.). Where I.C. rates are designated, the purchasing governmental unit will
				determine the appropriate payment as the actual cost of the item or service as
				evidenced by invoice, published tuition amount, or other price reasonably
				obtained by a competitive market for the product or service.
Intimate Partner Abuse Education
				Program
. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health certified
				Intimate Partner Abuse Education Programs (IPAEPs) work to increase the safety
				of domestic violence victims and survivors by holding their intimate partners
				accountable for abusing them. These 80-hour educational programs help abusers
				to develop respectful and non-abusive attitudes and behaviors toward their
				partners and children. IPAEPs contact victims and survivors to help them to
				plan for their safety, to refer them to support services like domestic violence
				service agencies and child witness to violence programs, and to ask about their
				abuser's behavior at home.
New Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Site
				Development
. One-time rate for start-up costs associated with a
				new MA SANE-designated hospital site or MA SANE-designated telemedicine
				hospital site within a rape crisis center's DPH-established service
				area.
Provider
. Any individual, group,
				partnership, trust, corporation, or other legal entity that offers services for
				purchase by a governmental unit and that meets the conditions of purchase or
				licensure that have been adopted by a purchasing governmental unit.
Rape Crisis Center Services
. The Rape
				Crisis Centers (RCC), part of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Survivor
				Services (SAPSS), serve as a vital community resource for survivors of sexual
				violence. Services are focused on the needs of the survivor and help with the
				short- and long-term community and health needs. Specific services include, but
				are not limited to, 24/7 hotline services; accompaniment to hospitals, police
				stations, and court appointments; and individual and group counseling.
Rape Crisis Center Statewide Specialized
				Hotline
. A statewide hotline created to support primary and
				secondary survivors of sexual violence who are from a specific population at
				high-risk of experiencing sexual violence or who experience specific barriers
				to accessing resources including, but not limited to, language barriers. Any
				such hotline will provide these services under the supervision of a DPH-funded
				rape crisis center. Hours of service and other service provision conditions
				will be negotiated with DPH.
Rape Crisis Satellite Center
. An
				additional physical point of access to clients with established and maintained
				office hours in locations external to the main RCC site.
Reporting Year
. The provider's fiscal
				year for which costs incurred are reported to the Operational Services Division
				on the Uniform Financial Statements and Independent Auditor's Report
				(UFR).
Sexual and Domestic Violence Equity
				Services
. Sexual and domestic violence (SDV) affects some groups
				of people at disproportionate levels as seen in higher prevalence, poorer
				access to services, and/or worse outcomes from SDV. Research on disparities has
				identified some of these groups as Black women, LGBTQ, immigrants, people with
				disabilities, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and people in rural
				areas. The service offers, but is not limited to, supports services, outreach,
				education, and community engagement with groups and individuals who are
				disproportionately adversely affected.
Sexual and Domestic Violence Equity Legal
				Services
. Services for the relief/amelioration of immigration or
				humanitarian crises encountered by refugees and immigrants, such as legal
				representation and humanitarian relief following natural disasters, immigration
				raids,
etc
.