Domestic Violence Basics

DV 101 SlideshowAre you being Abused?Are you an Abuser?

Are you being abused?

 

 

Does the person you love:

 

• “track” all of your time? page you constantly or call you at work several times a day
• to “check up on you?”
• constantly accuse you of being unfaithful?
• invade your privacy by reading your mail, listening in on phone calls, going through
• your purse, drawers, and other personal belongings?
• discourage your relationships with family and friends?
• prevent you from working or attending school?
• criticize you or get very angry about little things?
  control all the finances, make you ask for money, or expect you to account for all you spend?
• humiliate and degrade you (alone or in front of others)?
• destroy personal property or sentimental items?
• push, grab, hit, slap, kick, or bite you or the children?
• force you to have sex against your will?
• threaten to kill you, the pets, the kids, other family members, or him/herself if you leave?
• make you feel afraid most of the time?

 

If you recognize any of these behaviors in your relationship, call for confidential help:

 

Victim Resources in Santa Clara County:

 

Support Network for Battered Women

1-800-572-2782 (24-hour crisis line)

English and Spanish

 

Next Door, Solutions for Domestic Violence

(408) 279-2962 (24-hour crisis line)

English and Spanish

 

Community Solutions (South County)

(408) 683-4118 (24-hour crisis line)

English and Spanish

 

Asian Women’s Home

(408) 975-2739 (24-hour crisis line)

English, ASL, and many Asian languages

 

MAITRI

1-888-8MAITRI

Serving women of Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lankan descent

 

The Lazarus Project

408-225-2381

Serving the Christian Community

 

NISA

1-888-275-6472

Serving the Muslim Community

 

 

Don’t suffer in silence. Help is available.

 

“It’s so hard for people who haven't been abused to understand those who have. I and others, undoubtedly, often go through needless isolation and unjust mental self-condemnation for lack of support and knowledge.”