Safety when Preparing to Leave

• Open a savings account and/or credit card in your own name to start establishing or increasing your independence. Think of other ways in which you can increase your independence.

• Leave money, an extra set of keys, copies of important documents, extra medicines and clothes with someone you trust so you can leave quickly.

• Determine who would be able to let you stay with them or assist you financially.

• Keep the shelter hotline number close at hand

• Review your safety plan as often as passible in order to plan the safest way to leave your batterer. Remember leaving your batterer is a very dangerous time!