Personalized Safety
Plan
Checklist
What you need to take when you leave:
Identification
o Driver’s
License
o Birth
Certificate
o Children’s
Birth Certificates
o Social
Security Cards
Financial
o Money
and/or credit cards (in your name)
o Checking
and/or savings account books
Legal
Papers
o Protective
Order
o Lease,
rental agreement and house deed
o Car
registration and insurance papers
o Health
and life insurance papers
o Medical
records for you and your children
o School
records
o Work
permits/Green Card/Visa
o Passport
o Divorce
and custody papers
o Marriage
license
Other
o Medications
o House
and car keys
o Valuable
jewelry
o Address
book
o Pictures
and sentimental items
o Change
of clothes for you and your children
o Other
Emergency
Numbers
Police Emergency Number 911
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
1-800-787-3224 (TTY) for the Deaf
Women’s Advocacy Project
Family Violence Hotline
1-800-374-HOPE (4673)
Department of Family and Protective Services
Abuse/Neglect Hotline
1-800-252-5400
Telephone
numbers in your area
Police and/or Sheriff’s Department
_____________________________
County and/or District Attorney’s Office
_____________________________
Family Violence Program Hotline
_____________________________
Hospital
_____________________________
Taking precautions and making plans to stay safe.
You
have a right to be safe!
No one deserves to be hit or threatened. If you are being
hurt by someone you love, make plans and take precautions to keep yourself and
your children safe. Here are some suggestions that have helped other people in
situations like yours.
Safety
during an explosive incident
¶ If there is an
argument, try to be in a place that has an exit and not in a bathroom, kitchen
or room that may contain weapons.
¶ Practice getting out of your home
safely. Identify which doors, windows, elevator, or stairwell to use.
¶ Pack a bag, and have it ready at a
friend’s or relative’s house.
¶ Identify one or more neighbors you can
tell about the violence, and ask them to call the police if they hear a
disturbance coming from your home.
¶ Devise a code word to use with your
children, family, friends and neighbors when you need the police.
¶ Decide and plan where you will go if you
ever have to leave home.
¶ Use your instincts and judgment. In some
dangerous situations, give the abuser what he wants to calm him down.
Remember,
you don’t deserve to be hit or threatened!
Safety
when preparing to leave
¶ Open a checking or savings account in
your own name.
¶ Leave money, an extra set of keys,
copies of important documents and extra clothes and medicines in a safe place
or with someone you trust.
¶ Get your own post office box.
¶ Identify a safe place where you can go
and someone who can lend you money.
¶ Always keep the shelter phone number, a
calling card, or some change for emergency phone calls with you.
¶ If you have pets, make arrangements for
them to be cared for in a safe place.
Remember,
leaving your batterer is the most dangerous time!
Safety
with a protective order
¶ If you or your
children have been threatened or assaulted, you can request a protective order
from the District/County Attorney’s Office.
¶ Always keep your protective order with
you.
¶ Call the police if your partner violates
the protective order.
¶ Inform family members, friends and
neighbors that you have a protective order in effect.
¶ Think of alternative ways to keep safe
if the police do not respond immediately.
Safety
in your own residence
¶ If you stay in your home, lock your
windows and change the locks on your doors as soon as possible.
¶ Develop a safety plan with your children
for times when you are not with them.
¶ Inform your children’s school, day care,
etc., about who has permission to pick up your children.
¶ Inform neighbors and the landlord that
your partner no longer lives with you, and that they should call the police if
they see him/her near your home.
¶ Never tell the abuser where you live.
Never call the abuser from your home because the abuser may find out where you
live.
¶ Request an unlisted/unpublished number
from the telephone company.
Safety
on the job and in public
A. Inform someone at work of your situation. Include the
security officers at work and provide them with a picture of your batterer.
B. Have someone screen your telephone calls at work.
C. Have someone escort you to and from your car, bus or
train.
D. Use a variety of routes to come and go from home.
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