Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 125 - BOARD OF CORRECTIONS
Chapter 125-4 - INSTITUTIONAL, CENTER, AND PROGRAM SERVICES
Subject 125-4-9 - FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM
Rule 125-4-9-.03 - Definitions

(a) "Participant" means a person who commits an act of "family violence" as that term is defined below.

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

(c) "Class" means a group of two or more batterers who are simultaneously participating in an FVIP.

(d) "Commission" means the State Commission on Family Violence.

(e) "Community Task Force on Family Violence" or "CTF" means a community based family violence task force that is supported by and working in collaboration with the Commission that is responsible for coordinating the community's response to family violence.

(f) "Department" means the Georgia Department of Corrections.

(g) "DHR" means the Georgia Department of Human Resources.

(h) "Facilitator" means a batterers intervention group leader.

(i) "Family violence" means the occurrence of one 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:

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

(k) "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.

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

(m) "Monitor" means an agent of the Department trained and authorized to conduct monitoring of the administrative and/or programmatic components of FVIPs.

(n) "Office of Certification and Monitoring" means the office, within the Department, which is responsible for the certification and monitoring of FVIPs.

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

(p) "Provider" means a person that provides an FVIP.

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

(r) "Trainee" means a person in the process of becoming certified as a facilitator as required by these regulations.

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

(t) "Victim" means the family or household member against whom the batterer has committed, or is committing, acts of family violence.

(u) "Victim liaison" means a person who is a victim advocate, who has received domestic violence victim safety training, paid and subcontracted by the FVIP, and who works in a domestic violence organization that primarily serves battered women and their children.