La. Admin. Code tit. 67 § III-6949

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section III-6949 - Other Shelter Accommodations

A. Guiding Principles. These standards require that family violence programs establish common quality intervention services. Participation in intervention services shall be voluntary.

B. Minimum Standards

1. Standard 18.1. Alternatives to a shelter facility may include hotel and motel placement as a source of safe shelter in circumstances that include:

a. the shelter services program does not have a physical shelter facility available;

b. the physical shelter facility is at capacity and no space is available for those seeking emergency safe shelter;

c. the distance between the individual or family seeking safe shelter and the shelter facility prohibits immediate access to the facility;

d. the individual or family seeking safe shelter has special needs best served by shelter provision through a hotel or motel placement; and

e. the former resident of the shelter facility no longer needs primary shelter but would benefit from program managed subsidized or transitional housing services that are offered through a temporary hotel or motel placement.

La. Admin. Code tit. 67, § III-6949

Promulgated by the Department of Children and Family Services, Economic Stability Section, LR 4438 (1/1/2018).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 46:2121-2128.