Protect Your Online Safety

• Between Friends’ Crisis Line workers can provide support and talk with you about everything that is listed here. We can help with Orders of Protection, too.
  
• If it's safe, pack a bag that you can leave with a friend or family member, including:


• Copy of Order of Protection



• Medicine for you and your children



• Copies of birth certificates for you and your children



• Identification for you and your children – driver’s license, social security card, passport, green card, work permit, or other forms of ID



• Clothes



• Toiletries



• Children's toys



• Spare cash, ATM card, checkbook, and money for taxi/bus if needed



• Drivers license



• Copies of bank details



• Any other important documents (e.g., insurance papers, titles or leases, or residency papers)



• Important phone numbers, address book



• House and car keys



• Treasured items like photos or jewelry

• Find out the emergency numbers you may need - police, domestic violence hotlines, doctors, lawyers, friends and family. Keep these with you.



• If possible get a cell phone and keep this with you. Even a pre-pay cell phone with no money on it can be used to call 911 in the event of an emergency.



• If you think it is safe, talk to your friends and neighbors. Let them know that you and your children's safety is at risk. Ask them to watch out and to call the police if they hear anything.



• If you do not want the abuser to know you have phoned a domestic violence hotline, just pick up the phone and push any number afterwards and then they will not be able to use Redial.



• Organize an immediate place to go straight away (e.g., go to a friend's house, go to a safe place in the community like the police station). Plan a safe time to leave, and a safe route to take, and a way to get there (taxi, bus, friend or family member).



• Organize a place to stay for a while (emergency domestic violence shelter, friend's home, another house or apartment).