Definitions

1. "Emergency safe housing" means any form of short-term housing other than a safe home or shelter provided to a victim of adult abuse. 2. "Safe home" means a private volunteer home which has agreed to provide shelter to an abused adult and the adult's children for one to three days. The police may make regular patrols of the homes at the discretion of the individual programs. 3. "Shelter" means a permanent shelter facility run by the program, making housing and food available to the abused adult and the adult's children twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Generally the length of stay in a shelter is longer than in a safe home; staying approximately five to ten days.