Introducing our Safety Planning Companion Tool. This resource is grounded in decision trees, harm reduction strategies, and holistic safety planning. It focuses on leveraging strengths while also identifying potential barriers to ensure a comprehensive approach to safety.
It is essential to receive safety planning training. This is a skill set that can may help someone find safety.
This incident log is designed to help victims contextualize their entire relationship, allowing us to identify patterns of behavior and understand the significance of their experiences. One of the most powerful aspects of this tool is that it enables victims to recognize their own danger.
Pay close attention to any increase in the severity of violence and a decrease in the time between violent incidents. It’s also important to broaden your focus to include non-physical forms of violence, such as emotional and psychological abuse. These insidious acts can erode self-determination and self-efficacy—two essential components for finding safety.
Additional Resources:
Safety Planning and Lethality Assessment
Part of providing a trauma informed, healing inspired response is to center self determination which means that it is essential to embrace safety planning that inherently meets the participant where they are at.
Safety Planning: Suicide Prevention Resources:
Click: Suicide Prevention Life Line
Click: Beyond Blue Suicide Safety Planning
Click: Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Schools
Safety Planning and Domestic Violence:
Click: Love is Respect Interactive Safety Planning
Click: What is a safety plan: individualized
Click: Individualized Workplace DV safety planning guide
Click: Safety Planning with people who are experiencing
Domestic Violence and have disabilities
Click: Safety Planning with Children
Click: Safety Planning with Pets
Click: Safety Planning with Older Victims
Click: Emotional Safety Planning
Lethality Assessment:
Click: How Effective is Lethality Assessment?
Click: Lethality Assessment: A Critical Analysis
Click: Tools & Strategies for Assessing Danger or Risk of Lethality
Click: Police Departments’ Use of the Lethality Assessment Program:
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
Click: Danger, Lethality and Risk Assessment
Click: Review of Lethality Assessment Programs (LAP)
Click: The domestic violence fatality review clearinghouse: introduction to a new National Data System with a focus on firearms
Click: National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative