Safety Planning Toolkit — by a Canadian organisation that uses the principles of Response-Based Practice, which is why it is first in this list.
Most of the info in the toolkit is applicable to all countries. Some parts of the toolkit offer video and text options, so it caters to those who prefer to watch and listen, and those who prefer to read.
About Safety Planning — Australian site, but most of the info is applicable to all countries.
US Domestic Violence Hotline — Safety Planning
DASH Risk Checklist: Risk Identification for Trained Front Line Practitioners — UK
The DASH is a multi-agency tool used by most UK agencies with a focus on keeping victims and their children safe and ensuring perpetrators are proactively identified and managed.
The DASH is pioneering and innovative, turning a reactive ‘it’s just a domestic’ into a proactive ‘you must ask’ questions approach. Half the questions focus on coercive control and there is a focus on stalking and so-called honour based abuse because these are the cases where women and children are more likely to be harmed and killed by abusers.
DASH stands for Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model. The DASH Checklist was implemented across all police services in the UK from March 2009.
The DASH Checklist was created by Laura Richards on behalf of the UK National Police Chief Council (NPCC) and in partnership with Safe Lives. Laura Richards is a criminal behavioural analyst. She trained at New Scotland Yard and the FBI Behavioural Analysis Units. She is an international expert on domestic abuse, coercive control, stalking, sexual violence homicide and risk assessment. She has been the architect of law reform to better protect victims on 10 occasions as well giving evidence in Connecticut USA and Queensland Australia, both leading to successful outcomes regarding coercive control law reform. She has a BSc in Psychology and Sociology and an MSc in Forensic and Legal Psychology.
Bright Sky app for victims of domestic abuse
Created for the UK, but might be useful for people in other countries. The app encourages people experiencing domestic abuse to log private journal entries in the form of text, photos and videos, which are then sent to a designated email address. This information can be sent to the authorities at a later date.
Digital Safety — Women’s Aid Ireland
This safety plan is useful for all victims, but especially for those who have trouble reading or use English as their second language. It provides step-by-step instructions for implementing a safety plan regardless of whether the victim is living with the abuser, leaving the abuser, or has already left. It is used courtesy of the Outer South Peninsula Integrated Family Violence Partnership, Melbourne, Australia. Information and phone numbers have been changed to reflect organizations in the USA.
Easy English Safety Plan, Australia
The phone numbers it gives may now be outdated.
This is a Spanish version of the Easy English Safety Plan listed above, adapted for the USA. The phone numbers it gives may now be outdated.
Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit (Document the Abuse)
Ensure that a victim’s words about her fears and previous violence will not disappear if she does. A victim can make an Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit (EAA) to document her experiences in ways that will help the legal system successfully prosecute in the future, even if she is disappeared, dead, or in a coma.
The process combines video taping of the victim’s actual words attesting to the abuse, coupled with witnessed and notarized legal documents that successfully satisfy legal hurdles often faced in intimate partner violence and stalking cases.
A unique packaging of testimony + documentation + perpetrator historical profiling + pre-collected evidence delivered to established safe and legal persons = a delicate issue brilliantly wrapped up for successful prosecution.
How to collect evidence if your protection order is breached
Five minute video from Victoria, Australia, shows simple practical ways of gathering evidence when a protection order is breached. In the video ‘protection orders’ are called ‘intervention orders,’ and it gives the Australian emergency phone number which is 000.
Inside a Domestic Violence Shelter
This video takes you on a tour of the inside of a domestic violence shelter.
MOSAIC Threat Assessment Method
Free online risk and threat assessment tool developed by Gavin de Becker, author of the excellent book The Gift Of Fear. Mosaic helps the assessor weigh the present situation in light of expert opinion and research, and instantly compare the present situation to past cases where the outcomes are known.
Strangulation: Nurse Joanna Explains Why a Survivor of Strangulation Should Seek Help
Nurse Joanna is compassionate and easy to understand. Her tone is perfect for victims.
Strangulation: Detection & Investigation
Brian Bennett is a domestic violence instructor with the State Criminal Justice Academy in South Carolina and an advisor in the field of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Protective Behaviors for Children
This might help some protective mothers who are compelled by the Family Court to give the abusive father unsupervised access to their children, even when the mother knows the abuser has been sexually grooming or outright sexually abusing the children.
Many people unwittingly enable proxy stalking. Proxy stalking happens when a person stalking someone relies on information from a third party (such as the victim’s friend, relative, pastor, neighbour or work colleague) to stay informed of a victim’s location and activities.
SmartSafe videos on how to change settings on Android phones and iPhones.
Android Phones
SmartSafe – Turning geotagging off your photos on an Android phone
SmartSafe – Immediate safety settings for an Android phone
SmartSafe – Turn off location history on an Android phone
SmartSafe – Taking a screenshot for evidence collection on an Android phone
iPhones
SmartSafe – turning geotagging off your photos on an iPhone
SmartSafe – Turn off frequent locations on an iPhone
SmartSafe – clear your iPhone browser history
SmartSafe – taking a screenshot for evidence collection
SmartSafe – immediate safety settings for an iPhone
SmartSafe – immediate safety settings for an iPhone
The Intervention Order Process
This video explains the process for obtaining a Protection Order in Victoria, Australia. It is available in English, Arabic, Chin – Hakha, Chinese – Mandarin, Dinka, and Punjabi. In other places, the process of obtaining a Protection Order may be different and the laws may differ too, so the instructions may not exactly apply to where you live. In other places Protection Orders may be called Restraining Orders, Apprehended Violence Orders, Intervention Orders, etc.
I’ve been searching but can’t find the blog post on how often a domestic violence fatality is not proceeded by physical abuse. Could you point me to it, please? Thank you!
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Hi Hello Sunshine,
I have been unable to find a specific post that discusses how often a domestic violence fatality is not proceeded by physical abuse. Barbara has read that fact several times from secular DV research so it is possible that she mentioned that fact in the comment section of a post. Or possibly you read that fact on another site.
Here are links to three secular DV sites that may have more information on this. ANROWS, Safe Steps, and Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria (DVRCV)
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