Safety & Escape Plan

Safe shelter, transportation, child care, parental services, employment assistance, economic assistance, education assistance, life skills, transitional housing, referrals, in-person counseling, telephone counseling, individual counseling, group counseling, children's counseling, art therapy, substance abuse services, crisis intervention, conflict resolution, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, collaborative case management, community education, awareness promotion, volunteer opportunities.

Teach your children to call 911

Identify neighbors you can tell about the violence in your life and ask them to call the police if they hear or see a disturbance.

Develop a code word or signal to use so family, friends, or neighbors will know you are in danger and call the police.

Open your own savings account to increase your independence.

Leave money, an extra set of keys, copies of important documents, and extra clothes with someone you trust.

Email is not a safe confidential way to talk to someone about the danger or abuse in your life. 

Call The Survivor Empowerment Center's 24-hour hotline at 

Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at: 1-800-799-SAFE.

Traditional ''corded'' phones are more private than cell phones or cordless phones.

There are hundreds of ways that computers record everything you do on the computer and on the Internet. If you are in danger, please try to use a safer computer that someone abusive does not have direct access, or even remote access to. It might be safer to try to use a computer in a public library, at a community technology center (CTC) www.ctcnet.org (national directory), at a trusted friends house, or an Internet Cafe.

you might consider no home internet use or only safe internet surfing. Example: if you are planning to flee to California, don't look at classified ads for jobs and apartments, bus tickets, etc for California on a home computer or any computer an abuser has access to. Use a safer computer to research an escape plan.