Safety Plan

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Safety Plan

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Date: __26/4/2020__________________________________ Caseworker code: ______F35__________________________________________________________ Instructions: The purpose of Safety planning is to help survivors stay as safe as possible from the people who are abusing them and to find ways to minimize the harm done by abusers by identifying ways to escape, ways to avoid harm, and places she can run for safety. In cases of extreme or immediate danger, the response officer/case worker should notify her manager for additional assistance. Remember: The safety plan has to be realistic and it has to come from the Survivor herself. She knows more than anyone her situation and what strategies she can implement and what strategies she cannot. Your role is simply to guide her in identifying key information and resources that are available to her and together come up with the plan.

Safety Plan Date: __26/4/2020__________________________________ Caseworker code: ______F35__________________________________________________________ Instructions: The purpose of Safety planning is to help survivors stay as safe as possible from the people who are abusing them and to find ways to minimize the harm done by abusers by identifying ways to escape, ways to avoid harm, and places she can run for safety. In cases of extreme or immediate danger, the response officer/case worker should notify her manager for additional assistance. Remember: The safety plan has to be realistic and it has to come from the Survivor herself. She knows more than anyone her situation and what strategies she can implement and what strategies she cannot. Your role is simply to guide her in identifying key information and resources that are available to her and together come up with the plan. 1. Assess survivor’s sense of safety in home 2. Identify patterns of abuse Can you tell me about some of the times you have felt most unsafe around your husband/partner? What have you noticed about your husband/partner during those times when you feel unsafe? (What is he doing? What is his state of mind like?) What is happening around you during those times when you feel unsafe? (Are you in a particular place? Is it a certain time of day? Are you alone with him? If not, who is with you?) Have you noticed anything in particular that comes before the violence? Can you get out of the house before the violence starts or send a message to someone for help? Existing responses What do you do when you are in danger? Discuss with her if and how this is working. Existing resources (people, money, materials): Where could you go? (Help the survivor to think of at least one safe place she can get to quickly in an emergency. She should arrange things with that place ahead of time). Whom do you trust? (Think about anyone (neighbors, friends, family members, an organization) that the survivor can trust. For example, discuss having a signal with helpful neighbors. Upon seeing this signal from the survivor, neighbors would plan to visit in a group). Are there neighbors who you could talk to about the violence who could help you in emergency situations? Is there a signal could you create to alert neighbors that you need help? What financial resources do you have? (Can she save money and hide it somewhere the abuser will never look or keep it in a designated safe place. What material resources do you have? (Can any of these be moved out of the abuser's reach? Can any of them be used to support the survivor if she needs a means of income?) Explore potential safety strategies: If the violence begins, can you move into a room where you could escape or others could hear you? Or that might be safer (e.g., not kitchens to avoid kerosene, knives, etc)? Are there weapons in the house? Where? Can you remove or hide them? Are there places where you could go in an emergency (relative, neighbor, local leader, health clinic or hospital, safe space, Community center, etc.)? Who already knows about your partner’s abuse? (The survivor may not be embarrassed to enlist the help of these people). Is there anyone who can talk to the perpetrator at a non-violent time to try to discourage his violence? (There may be someone whom the perpetrator respects that could work with him to stop his use of violence. Even if temporary, it may give the survivor some respite). What local authorities or police might you involve, and under what circumstances would you involve them? (Discuss with the survivor at what point she would report the perpetrator and involve authorities). How can you involve your children? (If the survivor has children, what do the children do when the survivor and they are in danger? How can the survivor involve her children in safety strategies?) If needed to/ decided to leave If you have to leave, what will you bring? (Consider important documents such as identification for her and the children, clothing, food, and money and how they will be carried). Can you keep a bag hidden (either at home or at a friend’s/family member’s home) with the above items, for emergencies ? If you have to leave, what will happen to your children? ( If the survivor has children, what will be their role in the escape? Survivors almost always flee with their children, so it is important for the survivor to think about their safety and how much they are able to handle. If they will not go with her, what are the arrangements for their care?) Who else might be in danger if you had to leave? Consider whether the perpetrator would take out his frustration on anyone else if the survivor left. SUMMARY Existing responses Resources Potential safety strategies If had to / decided to leave Now she is filling safe in her own house because her husband not live with her.So now she live with her child.

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