Tennessee Code Title 71. Welfare § 71-6-202

(1) “Child abuse prevention services” means those services designed to prevent the occurrence of child abuse and neglect. They may include, but are not limited to:

(2) “Family or household member” means those persons who customarily reside in the household and who are in need of temporary shelter because their lives or welfare are in danger;

(3) “Family violence” means causing or attempting to cause bodily injury to a family or household member or placing a family or household member in fear of imminent physical harm by threat of force, regardless of age or mental functioning;

(4) “Shelter” means a place where family violence victims and their children can seek temporary refuge twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week, including a program that develops and manages a system under which private homes or commercial lodgings are used as refuge for family violence victims and their children; and

(5) “Shelter services” means counseling for family violence victims, counseling for perpetrators, advocacy for family violence victims, referral of family violence victims to other community resources, community education regarding prevention of family violence and rehabilitation of perpetrators.