Safety Plan

If you or someone you know is in a domestic violence situation..

Safety Planning

Planning for safety is something everyone does day to day. However, victims of domestic violence must not only plan for safety but for their children and their own survival. This involves being prepared and planning ahead. You are the best person to know your situation. The following are precautions and plans that can help increase your safety:

Things to Bring When You Leave

• Identification for yourself
• Children's birth certificates
• Your birth certificate
• Social security cards, green cards, passports
• School, vaccination records
• Money, bankbooks, ATM card, checkbook
• Credit cards
• Medication
• Keys-house, car, office
• Driver's license, car registration
• Divorce or separation papers
• Public Assistance ID/Medicaid cards
• Lease, rental agreement, or house deed
• Car/mortgage payment books

There's more help available than you think.

• Call your local phone company and see if they could monitor your line if you are getting harassing phone calls.
• You might consider filing for an ex parte, which is an order of protection granted by a judge to keep the undesired person away from your home and orders that person to keep from abusing, threatening to abuse, harassing or stalking you.

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