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Making it Count! Have a Safety Plan! People tend to think of physical or sexual

If you have been a victim before, make a plan abuse when they hear the term domestic Workforce
to keep you and your children safe in the future. violence, but there are many forms of abuse. Life Skills
You Have The Right To: Have a bag already packed with the following Most abusive situations are about the need

ƒ Be treated with respect items if you have them: to control other people: how they feel, what No. 12
ƒ Express opinions ƒ Change of clothes for yourself and your children they think, who their friends are, how they

ƒ Be listened to and taken seriously ƒ Address book, with phone numbers of friends, spend money, and how they behave.
Abuse can happen once, or over and over. If
ƒ Ask for what you want relatives, doctors, lawyers
ƒ Money, including change for a pay phone you have concerns about whether you or a loved one has experienced abuse,
ƒ Show feelings you need to read this pamphlet and work through the questions throughout
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ƒ Extra keys to the house and car
ƒ Say “NO” it. Remember love is not about hurt, pain
ƒ Emergency medicines
ƒ Live without fear of abuse or constant chaos. It’s important to keep Facts About Abuse
ƒ Important papers, such as checking and savings
ƒ Have friends and outside interests account numbers, copy of your lease, copy of yourself and your family safe. You do have ƒ Domestic abuse can
ƒ Say “I disagree.” no violent contact order/protective order, birth options and people who can help. happen to anyone
For Evaluation Only Everyone has a right to be treated ƒ More than 50% of kids who
certificates, social security numbers for members
(www.angriesout.com/family.htm) of your family, state medical cards, etc. My Well-Being regardless of race, age,
sexual orientation, religion,

Exercise: My Action Plan (PREVAIL, Inc., Victim’s Assistance, Support Group, Resources & gender, education, or income Abuse In Families
Referrals, Sept., 2005)
level.
Where I will go: with respect. Too often in an abusive witness their fathers beating

of well-being and are made to feel that
batterers or victims.
Which agency(ies) I will call: situation, people give up their own sense their mothers also become
they don’t deserve to be treated better.
become batterers.
8 Physical well-being – feeling safe and ƒ Boys are more likely to
What action I’ll take to keep myself and my family safe: free from physical harm ƒ Girls frequently date or
8 Social well-being – being able marry abusers.
to interact with loving family and
supportive friends ƒ Nearly 80% of girls who
8 Financial well-being – having access have been physically abused
Learnovation, LLC’s mission is to empower people and control of their own money by guys they date will
to manage their own careers. We believe in a continue to date them.
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www.learnovation.com life skills working together to bring out the best in interact with people and get support (National Domestic Violence
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people.
8 Purpose well-being – having goals and Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE [7233])
future