OAR 413-050-0515: Qualified Services

The Department uses the Domestic Violence Fund to make grants to nonprofit private organizations and public agencies to fund programs and projects designed to prevent, identify, and treat domestic violence. Grants from the Domestic Violence Fund may be made to: (1) Fund shelter homes for victims of domestic violence (2) Fund crisis lines providing services to victims of domestic violence and their families (3) Fund safe houses for victims of domestic violence and their families (4) Develop and establish programs for professional and paraprofessional personnel in the fields of social work, law enforcement, education, law, medicine, and other relevant fields who are engaged in the field of the prevention, identification, and treatment of domestic violence and training programs in methods of preventing domestic violence