Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 07 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Subtitle 03 - FAMILY INVESTMENT ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 07.03.23 - Refugee Resettlement Service Program › Section 07.03.23.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "Administration" means the Family Investment Administration of the Department of Human Resources.
(2) "Asylee" means an individual who has been granted asylum in the United States in accordance with § 208 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act, whose status has been verified by one of the following documents:
(a) Asylum approval letter from an INS Asylum office;
(b) INS Form I-94 noting that the individual has been admitted under § 208 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act;
(c) INS Form I-94 with the admission codes AS-1, AS-2, or AS-3;
(d) INS Form I-94 with Visa 93 or V-93 indicated; or
(e) Order of an immigration judge granting asylum under § 208 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
(3) Employability Assessment.
(a) "Employability assessment" means the process of determining the employability of individuals, as well as their progress toward the achievement of predefined occupational goals.
(b) "Employability assessment" may include assessment of:
(i) Aptitudes;
(ii) Barriers to employment;
(iii) Interests;
(iv) Language ability;
(v) Present abilities;
(vi) Previous education; and
(vii) Work experience.
(4) "Employability plan" means an individualized written plan for serving an individual which defines an employment goal and the developmental services or steps required to meet the goal within a mutually agreed-upon time frame.
(5) "Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)" means the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States Justice Department, which provides documentation of the status of refugees, asylees, and victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons.
(6) "Local department" means the local department of social services in the county, the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, or the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, where the applicant who is a refugee, asylee, or victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons resides.
(7) "On-the-job training (OJT)" means training a refugee, asylee, or victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons receives on the job and for which a stipend is usually paid by the employer as part of the salary.
(8) "Refugee" means an individual designated as a refugee by INS or declared to be eligible for refugee services by some other action of the federal government.
(9) "Service provider" means a public or private nonprofit agency or local department which provides refugee services under a contractual or grant agreement with the Administration or local department.
(10) "Victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons" means an individual who:
(a) Has been:
(i) A victim of sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act was induced by fraud, force, or coercion, or in which the individual induced to perform the act was not 18 years old or older at the time of the act; or
(ii) Recruited, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery; and
(b) Has a letter from the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the United States Department of Health and Human Services:
(i) Certifying the individual who is 18 years old or older as a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons; or
(ii) Recognizing the individual who is younger than 18 years old as a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons.
(11) "Voluntary resettlement agency" means the agency which:
(a) Arranges resettlement of refugees from refugee camps to communities within the United States through a contract with the United States State Department; and
(b) Is responsible for certain reception and placement services to refugees for the first 90 days after their arrival in the United States.