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.