Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 105 - GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
Chapter 105-3 - FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM
Rule 105-3-.03 - Definitions

(a) "Candidate" means a person who is ordered or self-referred to complete a Family Violence Intervention Program.

(b) "Certification fee" means the fee that is assessed by the Commission for consideration of an application for program certification or facilitator certification.

(c) "Class" means a group of participants who are simultaneously participating in a Family Violence Intervention Program.

(d) "CJCC" means Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.

(e) "Commission" means the Georgia Commission on Family Violence.

(f) "Community Task Force on Family Violence" means a community-based family violence task force that is supported by and working in collaboration with the Commission.

(g) "Department" means the Georgia Department of Community Supervision.

(h) "Domestic violence" refers to physical, emotional, economic, sexual and verbal abuse, coercive control, stalking, and violence or threats of violence against an intimate partner, property or others.

(i) "Facilitator" means a Family Violence Intervention Program group leader who is certified pursuant to these rules.

(j) "Facilitator Trainee" means a person who is in the process of completing the facilitator certification requirements.

(k) "Family violence" means the occurrence of one (1) or more of the following acts between past or present spouses, persons who are parents of the same child, parents and children, stepparents and stepchildren, foster parents and foster children, or other persons living or formerly living in the same household: Commission of the offense of battery, simple battery, simple assault, assault, stalking, criminal damage to property, unlawful restraint, criminal trespass or any felony.

(l) "Family Violence Intervention Program" or "FVIP" means any program which is certified pursuant to these rules.

(m) "Family" or "household member" means past or present spouses, persons who are parents of the same child, parents and children, stepparents and stepchildren, foster parents and foster children, or other persons living or formerly living in the same household.

(n) "Intimate partner" refers to a current or former spouse, domestic or dating partner, significant other, boyfriend, or girlfriend.

(o) "Lateness" means arriving to a class after the class has started at its scheduled time.

(p) "Monitor" means an agent of the Commission trained and authorized to conduct monitoring of facilitators, class content, and the administrative and/or programmatic requirements of FVIPs.

(q) "Participant" means a person who is enrolled in a Family Violence Intervention Program.

(r) "Person" means any individual, agent, representative, governing or operating authority, board, organization, partnership, agency, association, corporation, or other entity, whether public or private.

(s) "Program Owner" means owner designated on the FVIP certification and recertification application.

(t) "Provider" means a certified FVIP provider (certified facilitator and program) whose purpose is to rehabilitate family violence offenders.

(u) "SOP" means a standard operating procedure of the Department.

(v) "Trainer" means a person providing Commission-approved training that may be credited toward the training and continuing education requirements for facilitators.

(w) "Victim" means the family member, household member or intimate partner against whom a participant has committed, or is committing, acts of family violence or domestic violence.

(x) "Victim liaison" means a victim advocate who works in a CJCC-certified program or Commission-approved domestic violence organization that primarily serves victims of family violence or domestic violence and has received domestic violence victim safety training, and who shall be paid and subcontracted by the FVIP.