Make a Safety Plan
- Prepare for your safety even if you don’t think there will be a “next time.”
- Have an escape plan; avoid the kitchen and rooms with weapons, know somewhere safe and secret to go (friends, shelter, motel).
- Teach the children to dial 911 and what to say.
- Keep a list of important phone numbers (family, friends, shelters).
- Store a bag packed with spare keys, ID, important papers, important phone numbers, money and clothes outside the house or at a friends.
The S.A.F.E. House Hotline
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Profile of an Abuser
- Entitlement thinking
- Avoidance of feelings of helplessness, fear and powerlessness
- Denial about the impact his behavior has on himself and others
- Benefits from institutional and cultural forms of inequality
- Potentially aggravating factors: substance abuse, mental illness
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