Michigan Laws 780.863 – Certification training program for application assistants and victim advocates
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 780.863
- Application assistant: means an employee or volunteer at an agency or organization that serves victims of domestic violence, stalking, human trafficking, or sexual assault who has received training and certification from the department of the attorney general to help individuals complete applications to become program participants. See Michigan Laws 780.853
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
- Program: means the address confidentiality program created under this act. See Michigan Laws 780.853
- Victim: means an individual who suffers direct or threatened physical, financial, or emotional harm as the result of a commission of a crime. See Michigan Laws 780.853
- Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
- Victim advocate: means an employee of the department of the attorney general, the department of state, or the department of technology, management, and budget, or an employee of a county prosecutor's office, who has received training and certification from the department of the attorney general to help individuals complete applications to become program participants, and who is available to help individuals complete the applications and is responsible for assisting program participants in navigating through and accessing all aspects of the program. See Michigan Laws 780.853
(1) The department of the attorney general shall develop and offer a training program for application assistants and victim advocates to obtain certification under this act.
(2) The department of the attorney general shall certify a person applying for certification as an application assistant or as a victim advocate under this act if that person has completed the training program under subsection (1). The department of the attorney general shall make available on its website the names and contact information of the application assistants and victim advocates.
(3) An application assistant or victim advocate who provides assistance in accordance with this act does not violate section 916 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.916.