---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18201"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18201"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18201"
units:
  - "Chapter 158 — Support for Pregnant and Parenting Teens and Women"
---

# §18201. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) **Accompaniment—** The term “accompaniment” means assisting, representing, and accompanying a woman in seeking judicial relief for [child](/usc/42/416.md?p=e) support, [child](/usc/42/416.md?p=e) custody, restraining orders, and restitution for harm to [persons](/usc/42/1320a–7k.md?p=d-4-C-i) and property, and in filing criminal charges, and may include the payment of court costs and reasonable attorney and witness fees associated therewith.
- (2) **Eligible institution of higher education—** The term “eligible institution of higher education” means an [institution of higher education](/usc/42/6371h–1.md?p=a-4) (as such term is defined in [section 1001 of title 20](/usc/20/1001.md)) that has established and operates, or agrees to establish and operate upon the receipt of a grant under this chapter, a pregnant and parenting student services [office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1).
- (3) **Community service center—** The term “community service center” means a non-profit organization that provides social services to residents of a specific geographical area via direct service or by contract with a local governmental agency.
- (4) **High school—** The term “high school” means any public or private [school](/usc/42/6372.md?p=1) that operates grades 10 through 12, inclusive, grades 9 through 12, inclusive or grades 7 through 12, inclusive.
- (5) **Intervention services—** The term “intervention services” means, with respect to [domestic violence](/usc/42/10402.md?p=3), sexual [violence](#9), sexual assault, or stalking, 24-hour telephone hotline services for police protection and referral to shelters.
- (6) **Secretary—** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- (7) **State—** The term “State” includes the District of Columbia, any commonwealth, possession, or other territory of the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k), and any [Indian tribe](/usc/42/300f.md?p=14) or reservation.
- (8) **Supportive social services—** The term “supportive social services” means transitional and permanent [housing](/usc/42/1490p–2.md?p=r-3), vocational counseling, and individual and group counseling aimed at preventing [domestic violence](/usc/42/10402.md?p=3), sexual [violence](#9), sexual assault, or stalking.
- (9) **Violence—** The term “violence” means actual violence and the risk or threat of violence.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10211, Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 931.)