WAC 131-49-040
Definitions. Unless the context clearly
requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply
throughout this chapter.
(1) "Act" means the Displaced Homemaker Act, chapter 28B.04 RCW, as amended.
(2) "Advisory committee" means the advisory committee
established pursuant to WAC 131-49-030.
(3) "Appropriate job opportunities" means opportunities
to be gainfully employed, as defined in subsection (9) of this
section, in jobs which build upon all relevant skills and
potential skills of the individual displaced homemaker,
including opportunities in jobs which in the past may not
generally have been considered traditional for women.
(4) "Center" means a multipurpose service center as
defined in subsection (10) of this section.
(5) "Board" means the state board for community and
technical colleges.
(6) "Displaced homemaker" means an individual who:
(a) Has worked in the home for ten or more years
providing unsalaried household services for family members on
a full-time basis; and
(b) Is not gainfully employed;
(c) Needs assistance in securing employment; and
(d) Meets one of the following criteria;
(i) Has been dependent on the income of another family
member but is no longer supported by that income; or
(ii) Has been dependent on federal assistance but is no
longer eligible for that assistance; or
(iii) Is supported as the parent of minor children by
public assistance or spousal support, but whose youngest child
is within two years of reaching majority.
(7) "Executive director" means the executive director of
the board.
(8) "Executive officer" of the sponsoring organization
means the chief executive or senior officer of the
organization.
(9) "Gainfully employed" means employed for salary or
wages on a continuing basis and earning at least an amount
equal to the standard of need established under RCW 74.04.770.
(10) "Multipurpose service center" means a center
contracted for under the act, which either provides directly,
or provides information about and referral to, each type of
program of service as defined in subsection (14) of this
section.
(11) "Objective" means a purpose of a program of service
which can be quantified and for which objective measurements
of performance can be established.
(12) "Displaced homemaker program" means the program of
contracts for multipurpose service centers and programs of
service for displaced homemakers authorized by the act.
(13) "Program" means a program of service as defined in
subsection (14) of this section.
(14) "Program of service" means one of the specific
services listed in subdivisions (a) through (g) of this
subsection, and meeting the criteria set forth in the
subdivision.
(a) Job counseling services, which shall:
(i) Be specifically designed for displaced homemakers;
(ii) Counsel displaced homemakers with respect to
appropriate job opportunities (as defined in subsection (3) of
this section); and
(iii) Take into account and build upon the skills and
experience of a homemaker and emphasize job readiness as well
as skill development.
(b) Job training and job placement services, which shall:
(i) Emphasize short-term training programs and programs
which expand upon homemaking skills and volunteer experience
and which prepare the displaced homemaker to be gainfully
employed as defined in subsection (9) of this section;
(ii) Develop, through cooperation with state and local
government agencies and private employers, model training and
placement programs for jobs in the public and private sectors;
(iii) Assist displaced homemakers in gaining admission to
existing public and private job training programs and
opportunities, including vocational education and
apprenticeship training programs; and
(iv) Assist in identifying community needs and creating
new jobs in the public and private sectors.
(c) Health counseling services, including referral to
existing health programs, which shall:
(i) Include general principles of preventative health
care;
(ii) Include health care consumer education, particularly
in the selection of physicians and health care services,
including, but not limited to, health maintenance
organizations and health insurance;
(iii) Include family health care and nutrition;
(iv) Include alcohol and drug abuse; and
(v) Include other related health care matters as
appropriate.
(d) Financial management services, which shall:
(i) Provide information and assistance with respect to
insurance, taxes, estate and probate problems, mortgages,
loans and other related financial matters; and
(ii) Include referral, wherever feasible and appropriate,
to public legal assistance programs staffed by attorneys.
(e) Educational services, which shall:
(i) Include outreach and information about courses
offering credit through secondary or postsecondary education
programs, and other reentry programs, including bilingual
programming where appropriate; and
(ii) Include information about such other programs
determined by the board to be of interest and benefit to
displaced homemakers, and for which appropriate informational
materials have been provided by the board.
(f) Legal counseling and referral services, which shall:
(i) Be limited to matters directly related to problems of
displaced homemakers;
(ii) Be supplemental to financial management services as
defined in subdivision (d) of this subsection; and
(iii) Emphasize referral, wherever feasible and
appropriate, to public legal assistance programs staffed by
attorneys.
(g) General outreach and information services with
respect to federal and state employment, education, health,
public assistance, and unemployment assistance programs which
the board may determine to be of interest and benefit to
displaced homemakers, and for which the board distributes
appropriate informational materials.
(15) "Reaching majority" means reaching age eighteen.
(16) "Sponsoring organization" means a public
institution, agency or governmental entity, or a chartered
private nonprofit institution or organization which has legal
authority to submit an application, enter into a contract, and
provide the programs of service covered by the application,
and which agrees to provide supervision and financial
management to ensure compliance with the terms and conditions
of the contract.
(17) "Training for service providers" means activities
which provide training for persons serving the needs of
displaced homemakers.
(18) "Statewide outreach and information services" means
activities designed to make general outreach and information
services for displaced homemakers available throughout
Washington including but not limited to areas directly served
by multipurpose service centers or other programs of service
under the displaced homemaker program.
(19) "Subsistence" means support provided to, or paid to
recipients for support services including all living expenses,
child care, and transportation.
(20) "Performance indicators" means expected levels of
services and outcomes as established by the executive director
and made available in the application guidelines.
(21) "Initial contract" means a contract awarded based on
a competitive process and the evaluation of an initial
application.
(22) "Renewal contract" means a contract awarded to a
current sponsoring organization for the ensuing biennium,
based on the evaluation of a renewal application.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter 28B.04 RCW. 08-21-041, §
131-49-040, filed 10/8/08, effective 11/8/08. 07-23-089,
recodified as § 131-49-040, filed 11/20/07, effective
11/20/07. Statutory Authority: Chapter 28B.04 RCW. 01-01-050, § 250-44-040, filed 12/11/00, effective 1/11/01. Statutory Authority: Chapter 28B.04 RCW, as amended. 87-16-061 (Order 4-87, Resolution No. 87-57), § 250-44-040,
filed 7/31/87; 85-10-022 (Order 1/85, Resolution No. 85-44), §
250-44-040, filed 4/23/85; 82-15-018 (Order 2-82, Resolution
No. 82-54), § 250-44-040, filed 7/12/82. Statutory Authority:
RCW 28B.10.806. 79-09-042 (Order 7-79, Resolution No. 80-4),
§ 250-44-040, filed 8/17/79.]