When You Leave
Our expert advocates are ready to help you come up with a personalized path to safety, but if you’re forced to leave in a hurry, use the following list of items as a quick guide for what to bring with you:
- Identification
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- Driver’s license or state ID card
- Birth certificate and children’s birth certificates
- Social security cards
- Financial information
- Money and/or credit cards (in your name)
- Checking and/or savings account books
- Legal papers
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- Protective order, if applicable (make multiple copies if possible)
- Copies of any lease or rental agreements or the deed to your home
- Car registration and insurance papers
- Health and life insurance papers
- Medical records for you and your children
- School records
- Work permits/Green Cards/visas
- Passport
- Any legal documents, including divorce and custody papers
- Marriage license
- Emergency numbers
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- Your attorney
- Your local domestic violence program or shelter
- Trusted friends and family members
- Your local doctor’s office and hospital
- Criminal legal resources
- Children’s school
- The Hotline
- Other items to keep in mind
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- Medications and refills (if possible)
- Emergency items, like food, bottles of water, and a first aid kit
- Multiple changes of clothes for you and your children
- Emergency money
- Address book
- Extra sets of house and car keys
- Pictures and sentimental items
- Valuable items, such as jewelry
- Safe cell phone, if necessary
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