Safety Measures While You’re in an Abusive relationship
If you are living with the person who is battering you, here are some things you can do to ensure your and your children’s safety.
1. Have important phone numbers memorized -friends and relatives whom you can call in an emergency. If your children are old enough, teach them important phone numbers, including when and how to dial 911.
2. Keep this booklet in a safe place -where your batterer won’t find it, but where you can get it when you need to review it.
3. Keep change for pay phones with you at all times.
4. If you can, open your own bank account.
5. Stay in touch with friends -Get to know your neighbors. Resist any temptation to cut yourself off from people - even if you feel like you just want to be left alone.
6. Rehearse your escape plan until you know it by heart.
7. Leave a set of car keys, extra money, a change of clothes and copies of the following documents, with a trusted friend or relative:
· Your and your children’s birth certificates
· Your children’s school and medical records
· Bank books
· Welfare identification
· Passports or green cards
· Your social security card
· Lease agreements or mortgage payment books
· Insurance papers
· Important addresses and telephone numbers
· Any other important documents
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