Or. Admin. Code § 416-450-0010 - Definitions

(1) Close-custody facility: Any OYA facility, including but not limited to youth correctional facilities, work/study camps, and transition camps.

(2) Mentor program agency: Agency responsible for the recruitment, supervision, and training of its volunteer mentors.

(3) Office: Any parole/probation office (field office) or administrative office operated by OYA.

(4) OYA Volunteer Coordinator: An OYA staff member assigned to coordinate the agency's volunteer services program.

(5) Site Volunteer Coordinator: A person assigned to coordinate volunteer services for a specific OYA office or close-custody facility.

(6) Substitute care: Out-of-home residential placement in the community that provides 24-hour-a-day care and treatment, excluding a relative's home. Such placements include, but are not limited to, foster care and contracted residential treatment programs.

(7) Volunteers: Persons who on an unpaid basis provide services to OYA, including:

(a) Mentors: Mature, trustworthy and experienced persons who encourage a youth in custody's personal growth, offer supportive friendships, act as positive role models and promote a constructive attitude and law-abiding behavior;

(b) Work Readiness Coaches: Persons who teach particular skills/tasks related to employment, or provide practical work experience;

(c) Students or Interns: Persons enrolled in a college- or university-sanctioned program who earn college credit for their activities;

(d) Tutors: Persons who work with individual youth in custody to improve the youth in custody's academic performance; and

(e) Religious Services Assistants: Persons who assist with religious programming or services.

(8) Youth in custody: A person in the legal and physical custody of OYA in a youth correction facility; or a person in the legal custody of the Department of Corrections and the physical custody of OYA in a youth correction facility.

Notes

Or. Admin. Code § 416-450-0010

OYA 2-1995, f. 12-19-95, cert. ef. 1-2-96; OYA 2-2002, f. & cert. ef. 1-18-02; OYA 13-2002, f. & cert. ef. 8-26-02; OYA 9-2004, f. & cert. ef. 7-30-04; OYA 4-2012, f. & cert. ef. 4-3-12; OYA 6-2023, amend filed 01/10/2023, effective 1/10/2023

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 420A.025

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 420A.010