Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1)
ORS 180.700 gives the Attorney
General authority, in consultation with an advisory committee, to adopt rules
that establish standards for batterers' intervention programs (BIP). OAR
137-087-0000 through 137-087-0100 establish those BIP standards (standards) for
intervention services provided to male batterers who engage in battering
against women. Additional rules shall be developed later to address standards
for intervention services for women batterers and battering in same sex
relationships. Nothing in these rules should be construed to prevent a BIP from
providing appropriate batterer intervention services to batterers who are not
within the scope of these rules at this time.
(2) The purposes of the standards are:
(a) To help ensure the safety of women, their
children and other victims of battering;
(b) To help ensure that BIPs use appropriate
intervention strategies to foster a batterer's stopping his violence, accepting
personal accountability for battering and personal responsibility for the
decision to stop, or not to stop, battering; and to promote changes in the
batterer's existing attitudes and beliefs that support the batterer's coercive
behavior;
(c) To help ensure that
BIPs address all forms of battering;
(d) To help ensure that BIPs are culturally
informed and provide culturally appropriate services to all
participants;
(e) To help ensure
egalitarian and respectful behavior by BIP staff toward women and men of all
races and cultures;
(f) To help
ensure that BIPs provide services that are affordable and accessible for
participants, including participants with disabilities;
(g) To provide a uniform standard for
evaluating a BIP's performance;
(h)
To encourage practices, based on consensus of research and proven field
experience, that enhance victim safety;
(i) To foster local and statewide
communication and interaction between BIPs and victim advocacy programs, and
among BIPs; and
(j) To help ensure
that BIPs operate as an integrated part of the wider community response to
battering.
(3)
Implementation and transition provisions:
(a)
A BIP may apply these standards only to BIP applicants who request or are
referred for admission to the BIP after the effective date of these
rules;
(b) BIPs in operation on the
effective date of these rules shall make reasonable efforts to conform their
policies and practices with these standards as soon as practicable but no later
than six months after the effective date of these rules;
(c) BIPs commencing operations after the
effective date of these rules shall comply with these standards as soon as
practicable but no later than six months after commencing operations.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
180.070 -
180.710
Stats. Implemented: ORS
180.070 -
180.710
