Safety Tips
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Safety Planning
Check the first two pages of your local phone book for all emergency numbers. 800 numbers can be called free from pay phones.
- When you are being threatened or fear for your safety, call 911
- Make noise: neighbours may call the police for you
- Teach your children how to call 911 for help and make a safety plan with them and the neighbours if possible
- If you can, take the children with you when you leave
- Contact your local women's shelter for help with safety planning
- Open a bank account in your own name and arrange that statements are not mailed to you
- Save as much money as you can
- Save money for taxi, and quarters for pay phones
- Plan emergency exits
- Hide extra clothes, house keys, car keys, money, etc. at a friend's house or in a safe place
- You can ask police to go back to your home with you to get some of your things
If you have to leave in a hurry try to take:
- Keys - house and car
- Identification - Social Insurance Number, health card, birth certificates, driver's license, passports, immigration papers, wallet, bank cards and bank books
- Medication - prescription and over the counter
- Suitcase - pre-pack an emergency bag and hide it
