P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 8300
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning stated below:
(a) Administration. — Refers to the Socio-Economic Development Administration of the Department of the Family; it is the Government entity created by virtue of the Reorganization Plan of July 28, 1995, attached to the Department of the Family, App. XI of this title.
(b) Delegated agency. — An entity contracted by the Socio-Economic Development Administration of the Department of the Family to manage the cases of the participants who are referred to be trained; and which shall be in charge of identifying competent candidates to take courses and workshops on the basic care of persons.
(c) Training. — Courses or workshops on the care of persons certified by the interdisciplinary groups that shall be offered to the participants of financial assistance programs of the Government.
(d) Government. — Refers to the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(e) Interdisciplinary groups. — It refers to a group of agencies and educational and social groups, which shall have the duty of establishing, creating and revising the courses given in the trainings designed for the Special Programs for Training in the Basic Care for Social Assistance Beneficiaries. These groups shall determine all the necessary aspects that shall cover the training designed for each specific population that it attends and the educational offerings which shall be provided to the participants of the financial assistance programs of the Government.
(f) Participants of the financial assistance programs of the Government. — Persons with limited resources who receive the financial and social assistance benefits from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and who are authorized to receive benefits by the Socio-Economic Development Administration, after being qualified according to the eligibility requirements for the qualification, training and job placement programs.
(g) Persons with disabilities. — Persons who have some type of physical or mental condition or developmental deficiency that limits his/her performance and self-sufficiency.
(h) Elderly persons. — Those persons who are sixty (60) years of age and over.
(i) Program. — Special Program for Training in the Basic Care for Social Assistance Beneficiaries.
(j) Organizations for persons with disabilities. — Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and private entities that provide support, medical, therapeutic, and psychological services, equipment, and specialized care to persons with disabilities, such as the Advocate for Persons with Disabilities, the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, SER de Puerto Rico, and the Parents for the Welfare of Disabled Children’s Association, among others.
(k) Organization of elderly persons. — Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and private entities, which provide support, medical, therapeutic, educational and psychological services, equipment, and specialized care to elderly persons such as the Office of the Affairs of the Elderly, Gerontology Program of the Public Health Graduate School, the Geriatrics Unit of the Medical Sciences Campus, among others, to be called by the Department of [the Family].
History —June 1, 2002, No. 72, § 2; Dec. 19, 2003, No. 312, § 1.