Creating a Safety Plan

Although a survivor does not have control over the violence they are experiencing, it is possible to increase a survivor's safety--and the safety of any children or dependents involved--by considering potential risks and trying to prepare for reducing or neutralizing those risks.

Creating a safety plan involves identifying potential protective actions that can increase a survivor's safety and help prepare in advance for the possibility of further violence. The Creating a Safety Plan resource offers many suggestions and questions for consideration, and we hope that these will be useful to survivors and to frontline workers supporting survivors.

Click here to download the Safety Planning Guide in English, in PDF format.

The most recent edition published in November 2020 is now available in six other languages. 

Simplified Chinese 
Urdu
Punjabi 
Vietnamese 
Arabic 
French

Older versions of the Safety Planning Guide are accessible in the languages below. Please note that some of the information may be dated and require cross-referencing with the updated guide.

We thank you for your patience as we work to enhance the language diversity and general accessibility of all PCAWA resources.   

Hindi
Polish
Portuguese
Tamil
Spanish
Italian
Tagalog