Here are what we recommend taking with you when you leave, though we understand that isn’t always possible and your safety is still the first priority:
- Identification
- Driver’s License
- Children’s Birth Certificate
- Your Birth Certificate
- Social Security Card
- Other Forms of Identification
- Financial Items
- Money or Credit Cards
- Bank Books
- Checkbooks
- House and Car Keys
- Toiletries
- Change of Clothes
- Pictures of you, your children, and your abuser
- Jewelry/Small Salable objects
- Address Book
- Legal Papers
- Your Restraining Order
- Lease, Rental Agreement, or House Deed
- Car Registration and Insurance papers
- Health and Life Insurance papers
- School Records
- Work Permits, Green Card, Visa Passport
- Divorce and Custody Papers
