What is Domestic Violence?
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior that is used by an individual to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner or family member. Dating violence is a kind of intimate partner violence that occurs between two people in a close relationship. It is a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against the other within the context of either casual dating or a long-term relationship.
Who We Are
Involves injuring, disabling or killing the victim. Physical abuse can be performed with a weapon or restraint or merely using body, size or strength to harm another person. The injury from the abuse does not have to be major.
Financial Abuse
- Demanding access to your money
- Preventing you from working
- Insisting that if they pay for you, you owe them something in return
Digital Abuse
- Sending threats via text, social media or email
- Stalking or embarrassing you on social media
- Hacking your social media or email accounts without permission
- Forcing you to share passwords
- Constantly texting or calling to check up on you
- Frequently looking through your phone or monitoring your texts/call log
Emotional/physchological Abuse
- Humiliating, insulting, or swearing at the other
- Attempting to control activities
- Trying to destroy self-confidence and self-esteem
- Isolating the person from other friends and family
Sexual Abuse
Not only includes rape and sexual assault, but it also includes demeaning behavior like exposing a partner’s body to friends, forcing a partner into posing for pornography, secretly videotaping a partner while engaging in sex, or forcing a partner to have sex without using protection.
Safety Plan
Not only includes rape and sexual assault, but it also includes demeaning behavior like exposing a partner’s body to friends, forcing a partner into posing for pornography, secretly videotaping a partner while engaging in sex, or forcing a partner to have sex without using protection.