Tennessee Code 71-6-205 – Prerequisites to receiving funds for shelters or shelter services
Current as of: 2024 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-6-205
- Family violence: means causing or attempting to cause bodily injury to a family or household member or placing a family or household member in fear of imminent physical harm by threat of force, regardless of age or mental functioning. See Tennessee Code 71-6-202
- Shelter: means a place where family violence victims and their children can seek temporary refuge twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week, including a program that develops and manages a system under which private homes or commercial lodgings are used as refuge for family violence victims and their children. See Tennessee Code 71-6-202
- Shelter services: means counseling for family violence victims, counseling for perpetrators, advocacy for family violence victims, referral of family violence victims to other community resources, community education regarding prevention of family violence and rehabilitation of perpetrators. See Tennessee Code 71-6-202
To receive funds under this part for family violence shelter services or shelters, or both, all applicants shall show that they have provided shelter services for at least six (6) months prior to the application for funds under this part, and that the funds provided under this part will enable them to establish or maintain a shelter for victims of family violence within a defined timetable, in addition to any other services provided as described in the standards promulgated under § 71-6-203(7).