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 for the Creating a Safety Plan in PDF format.
The most recent edition, published in November 2020, is also available in French here.
We also have available the following older versions of the Creating a Safety Plan resource in the following languages. (Please note that these are significantly dated, however and we are examining possibilities to produce updated translations in all the most commonly used languages in Peel Region.):
Chinese
Hindi
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Urdu
Tamil
Spanish
Italian
Tagalog
Arabic
Vietnamese
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 for the Creating a Safety Plan in PDF format.
The most recent edition, published in November 2020, is also available in French here.
We also have available the following older versions of the Creating a Safety Plan resource in the following languages. (Please note that these are significantly dated, however and we are examining possibilities to produce updated translations in all the most commonly used languages in Peel Region.):
Chinese
Hindi
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Urdu
Tamil
Spanish
Italian
Tagalog
Arabic
Vietnamese