Learn About Abuse
Personal Safety Plan
- Personal Safety Plan.pdf
- Note: Each safety plan is unique and complex and leaving your relationship can lead to increased risk
- Please contact Community Based Victim Services (250-832-0005) or the Transition House (250-832-9616) for further assistance with your personal safety plan
- The Power & Control Wheel is a simple, powerful tool to understand the dynamics of intimate partner violence
- The opposite of power and control, the Equality Wheel is a visual representation of a healthy, non-abusive relationship
- The Cycle of Violence and/or Cycle of Abuse explains cyclical (or repeating) nature of intimate partner violence
- There are three phases of the cycle of violence including tension building, “acute battering” (abusive), and honeymoon phases
- Over time the tension building and honeymoon phases usually become shorter and the abuse increases (either in frequency, severity, or both)
- The cycle works to keep people in abusive relationships by controlling them
Types of Violence and Abuse from the Ending Violence Association of BC
Are You Being Abused from the Ministry for Public Safety Solicitor General
Live Safe, End Abuse from Legal Services Society
- What abuse is, who can help, how to protect yourself, how the law can protect you
- Click here to select this publication in other languages
How to Help Someone Experiencing Abuse
Is Someone You Know Being Abused from the Ministry for Public Safety Solicitor General
What Bystanders Can Do from Ending Violence Asociation of BC
Protecting Yourself and Your Children
Mothers Leaving Abusive Partners from Legal Services Society
- About abuse, where to get help, family law protection
- Click here to select this publication in other languages
For Your Protection: Peace Bonds and Family-Law Protection Orders from Legal Services Society
- Information for people in relationships who need protection from violence or the threat of violence
- Click here to select this publication in other languages