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Safety Planning
A personalized, practical plan to improve your safety while experiencing abuse, preparing to leave an abusive situation, or after you leave.
A personalized, practical plan to improve your safety while experiencing abuse, preparing to leave an abusive situation, or after you leave.
Preparing To leave
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Let someone you trust
keep a bag packed with
your essential items and
copies of important
documents. -
Devise a code word to use
with your neighbor,
children and family when
you need them to call the
police.
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Practice how to get out of
the home safely.
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Teach your children how
to call the police.
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Plan for a safe place to go
if you have to leave
suddenly.
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Open a savings account or
credit card in your own
name.
Let someone you trust keep a bag packed with your essential items and copies of important documents.
Practice how to get out of the home safely.
Plan for a safe place to go if you have to leave suddenly.
Devise a code word to use with your neighbor, children and family when you need them to call the police.
Teach your children how to call the police.
Open a savings account or credit card in your own name.
Leaving
- You may request police stand-by
- Consider getting a Order of Protection (OP)
- Take important phone numbers and documents.
- Create a false paper trail to make your abuser think you have gone someplace else
Let someone you trust keep a bag packed with your essential items and copies of important documents.
Practice how to get out of the home safely.
Plan for a safe place to go if you have to leave suddenly.
Devise a code word to use with your neighbor, children and family when you need them to call the police.
After Leaving
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Keep a copy of your OP
with you at all times and
give a copy to your
children’s school
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Change passwords / login
information for online
accounts
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Stay in touch with trusted
family and friends.
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Change the locks if you’re
still in your home
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Increase privacy settings
for all online accounts
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Stay in touch with trusted
family and friends.
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Install as many security
features as possible
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Check for GPS tracking on
phones, cars, and internet
-connected devices
Keep a copy of your OP with you at all times and give a copy to your children’s school
Change the locks if you’re still in your home
Install as many security features as possible
Change passwords / login information for online accounts
Increase privacy settings for all online accounts
Check for GPS tracking on phones, cars, and internet -connected devices
Stay in touch with trusted family and friends.
Here’s a checklist of what Copies to make
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Birth
Certificates -
Driver’s License or
other identification -
Medicaid / Social
Security / Insurance cards -
Bank Account
Information
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Immigration
Paperwork -
Immunization
& Health Records -
Marriage License /
Divorce Papers - Any Court Orders, including Protection, Custody / Visitation, Or Support
Pack A bag With
- Extra keys to house, car, etc.
- Money
- Copies of important papers (above)
- Medication
- Change of clothes for self and kids
- Supplies for pets
other services
You can file a custody or visitation petition at your local Family Court.
Provides you with an intake assessment to determine needs and resources that may be available to you.
The Retreat will assist with completing a child support petition and then submit it at your local Family Court.
When these signs are present, reconnect, engage, and offer support.
