West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 191 - Family Protection Services Board › Title 191 - LEGISLATIVE RULE FAMILY PROTECTION SERVICES BOARD › Series 191-02 - Family Protection Programs, Outreach Services and Shelter › Section 191-2-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
For purposes of these rules, the following definitions shall
				  apply:
2.1. "Advocacy" means assisting
				victims and survivors of domestic and family violence, dating violence, sexual
				assault, stalking or human trafficking, and their children, in obtaining
				support and assistance in securing rights, remedies, and services, by directly
				providing for, or referring to, public and private agencies to provide for,
				safety planning; shelter; housing; legal services; outreach; counseling; case
				management; information and referral; training; employment; child care; health
				care; transportation; financial literacy education; financial planning and
				related economic empowerment services; parenting and other educational
				services; and other supportive services.
2.2 Board" means the Family Protection
				Services Board created pursuant to Chapter 53 of the Acts of the Legislature of
				1989 and subsequently recodified in § 48-26-204.
2.3. "Certified Domestic Violence Advocate"
				means an advocate employed by a licensed domestic violence program who has been
				approved by the Board of Directors of West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic
				Violence as meeting the eligibility standards outlined in the Coalition's
				Domestic Violence Advocate Certification Project.
2.4. "Closure" means the temporary or
				permanent prohibition of specified services and the corresponding suspension of
				licensure of a program or program component that violates the standards
				established by the board or that threatens the health, well being or safety of
				its program participants or staff.
2.5. "Crisis Intervention" means supportive
				intervention services provided by licensed domestic violence programs. The
				services include but are not limited to assisting victims of domestic and
				family violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking or human
				trafficking, and their children, in identifying and assessing their situation
				and accessing resources for resolution.
2.6. "Department" means the Department of
				Health and Human Resources.
2.7.
				"Direct Services" means acts of assistance provided directly to victims
				including, but not limited to, emergency shelter, crisis intervention, safety
				planning-; shelter; housing; legal services; outreach; counseling; case
				management; information and referral; training; employment; child care; health
				care; transportation; financial literacy education; financial planning and
				related economic empowerment services; parenting and other educational
				services; and other support services.
2.8. "Domestic violence program" means a
				licensed program of a locally controlled nonprofit organization, established
				primarily for the purpose of providing advocacy services, comprising both a
				shelter component and an outreach component, to victims of domestic violence,
				dating violence, sexual assault, stalking or human trafficking, and their
				children:
Provided,
That the board may temporarily or
				permanently close either the shelter component or the outreach component of a
				domestic violence program.
2.9.
				"Family Protection Fund" means the special revenue account established by
				Chapter 74 of the Acts of the Legislature of 1981, held by the department, for
				the purpose of collecting marriage license fees pursuant to section ten,
				article one, chapter fifty-nine of this code, divorce surcharge fees pursuant
				to section twenty-eight-a, article one, chapter fifty-nine of this code, fees
				for failure to present a premarital education course completion certificate
				pursuant to section ten, article one, chapter fifty-nine of this code and any
				other funding source, including any source created in another section of this
				code, and distributed to licensed domestic violence programs, in accordance
				with the formula designated by the board.
2.10. "Outreach" means a licensed domestic
				violence program's community-based activities that increase awareness and
				availability of services, in every county within the program's regional service
				area, to victims and survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual
				assault, stalking or human trafficking, and their children.
2.11. "Safety Planning" means a process where
				victims of domestic and family violence, dating violence, sexual assault,
				stalking or human trafficking, and their children, are assisted in identifying
				specific actions that help them maximize their safety.
2.12. "Shelter" means residential services
				offered by a licensed domestic violence program on a temporary basis, to
				persons who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault,
				stalking or human trafficking, and their
				children.