OAR 413-050-0510: Definitions

(1) "Crisis line" is defined in ORS 108.610(2) and means an emergency telephone service staffed by persons who are trained to provide emergency peer counseling, information, referral, and advocacy to victims of domestic violence and their families. (2) "Domestic and Sexual Violence Fund Advisory Committee" means the Domestic and Sexual Violence Fund Advisory Committee established in OAR 413-050-0530. (3)(a) "Domestic violence,” defined by ORS 108.610, means the physical injury, sexual abuse or forced imprisonment, or threat thereof, of a person by another person who is related by blood, marriage or intimate cohabitation at the present or has been related at some time in the past, to the extent that the person's health or welfare is harmed or threatened thereby. (b) "Domestic violence" includes a pattern of assaultive or coercive behaviors including physical, sexual, psychological, and emotional abuses, as well as economic coercion that adults use against their intimate partners to gain power and control in that relationship. (4) "Domestic Violence Fund" means the fund established by ORS 108.660. (5) "Family Violence Prevention Program" means the program within the Department funded by the Domestic Violence Fund and other related funds as available to provide shelter and related services to victims of domestic violence. (6) "Grantee" means a proposer that has been awarded a grant by the Department from the Domestic Violence Fund to support one or more of the projects and programs described in OAR 413-050-0515. (7) "Proposer" means a public agency or private non-profit organization that meets the minimum criteria contained in OAR 413-050-0515 and that applies to the Department for funding from the Domestic Violence Fund to support one or more of the projects and programs described in 413-050-0570. (8) "Safe house" means a place of temporary refuge, offered on an as needed basis to survivors of domestic violence and their families. (9) "Shelter home" or "shelter facility" means a place of temporary refuge, offered on a 24 hours a day, seven days a week basis to survivors of domestic violence and their children.