Domestic violence is…

POWER & CONTROL…
physical, verbal, sexual, financial and/or emotional abuse…
NEVER the victim’s fault.

Are you in danger?

Click the buttons below to answer some questions to help determine your safety level:
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Examples include when a partner or caregiver:

• Kicks, punches, slaps or harms you, pets, children or loved ones.
• Doesn’t allow you to take birth control or other medication; prevents you from seeking medical or social services help.
• Forces you to have sex.
• Curses, yells at or calls you names; threatens to hurt or kill you, a pet, family or friends.
• Isolates you from family and friends.
• Controls all or most of the finances.
• Threatens your job security.
• Threatens to report you to the police or have you deported.
• Behaves possessively or exhibits extreme jealousy.
• Misrepresents you to important people in your life.