Section 30-7-1 Adoption of standards by Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Incorporated. The Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Incorporated, shall assist the Director of the Department of Economic and Community Affairs to establish standards for domestic violence centers for membership in the coalition. Standards shall include minimum standards for the safe and effective provision of […]
Section 30-7-2 Minimum standards for domestic violence shelters. (a) The following minimum standards for domestic violence centers shall be used by the Department of Economic and Community Affairs to determine membership in the coalition or other qualified entity and eligibility for receiving funds administered by the Department of Economic and Community Affairs. Any domestic violence […]
Section 30-7-3 State funding. Any domestic violence center within the state that meets the standards established by this chapter and is certified by the Department of Economic and Community Affairs as a full member in the coalition or other qualified entity shall be eligible to receive funds that are appropriated from the Domestic Violence Trust […]
Section 30-7-4 Coalition certification; funding. (a) Any domestic violence center within the state that desires to become certified by the director may request certification. Upon approval and certification by the Director of the Department of Economic and Community Affairs, a domestic violence center may receive funding appropriated by the Legislature specifically to the Department of […]
Section 30-7-5 Allocating coalition funds. The Department of Economic and Community Affairs shall be responsible for allocating state appropriated funds to existing and new domestic violence centers that have been certified pursuant to this chapter. (Acts 1997, No. 97-411, p. 676, §5; Act 2015-493, §2.)
Section 30-7-6 Perpetrator counseling programs. (a) The director, in consultation with the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Incorporated or other qualified entity, as provided in subsection (b) of Section 30-7-2, the Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers, and the Alabama Department of Mental Health, shall establish the content of batterers’ intervention programs in order to […]
