OAR 137-087-0000
Purpose and Implementation
(1)
ORS 180.700 (Advisory committee) gives the Attorney General authority, in consultation with an advisory committee, to adopt rules that establish standards for batterers’ intervention programs (BIP). OAR 137-087-0000 (Purpose and Implementation) through 137-087-0100 (BIP Advisory Committee) establish those BIP standards (standards) for intervention services provided to male batterers who engage in battering against women. Additional rules shall be developed later to address standards for intervention services for women batterers and battering in same sex relationships. Nothing in these rules should be construed to prevent a BIP from providing appropriate batterer intervention services to batterers who are not within the scope of these rules at this time.(2)
The purposes of the standards are:(a)
To help ensure the safety of women, their children and other victims of battering;(b)
To help ensure that BIPs use appropriate intervention strategies to foster a batterer’s stopping his violence, accepting personal accountability for battering and personal responsibility for the decision to stop, or not to stop, battering; and to promote changes in the batterer’s existing attitudes and beliefs that support the batterer’s coercive behavior;(c)
To help ensure that BIPs address all forms of battering;(d)
To help ensure that BIPs are culturally informed and provide culturally appropriate services to all participants;(e)
To help ensure egalitarian and respectful behavior by BIP staff toward women and men of all races and cultures;(f)
To help ensure that BIPs provide services that are affordable and accessible for participants, including participants with disabilities;(g)
To provide a uniform standard for evaluating a BIP’s performance;(h)
To encourage practices, based on consensus of research and proven field experience, that enhance victim safety;(i)
To foster local and statewide communication and interaction between BIPs and victim advocacy programs, and among BIPs; and(j)
To help ensure that BIPs operate as an integrated part of the wider community response to battering.(3)
Implementation and transition provisions:(a)
A BIP may apply these standards only to BIP applicants who request or are referred for admission to the BIP after the effective date of these rules;(b)
BIPs in operation on the effective date of these rules shall make reasonable efforts to conform their policies and practices with these standards as soon as practicable but no later than six months after the effective date of these rules;(c)
BIPs commencing operations after the effective date of these rules shall comply with these standards as soon as practicable but no later than six months after commencing operations.
Source:
Rule 137-087-0000 — Purpose and Implementation, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=137-087-0000.