Create a Safty Plan

WHAT IS A SAFETY PLAN?

A safety plan is a set of actions that can help lower your risk of being hurt by your partner. It includes information specific to you and your life that will increase your safety at school, home, and other places that you go on a daily basis.

Protect yourself from abuse

Boundaries are needed in every relationship. They help you determine the level of vulnerability you’re comfortable sharing for both you and your partner. But what are personal boundaries, and how do you define them in your relationship?

The relationship spectrum

All relationships exist on a spectrum from healthy to ​abusive, with unhealthy somewhere in the middle.

Healthy relationships are based on ​equality & respect

You make decisions together and can ​openly discuss whatever you’re dealing ​with, like relationship problems and ​sexual choices. You enjoy spending time ​together but can be happy apart.

• respect

• good communication ​• trust

• honest

• equality

Unhealthy relationships are based on ​attempts to control the other person

One person tries to make most of

the decisions. He or she may pressure ​their partner about sex or refuse to

see how their actions can hurt. In an ​unhealthy relationship, you feel like you ​should only spend time with your partner.

• breaks in communication ​• pressure

• dishonesty

• struggles for control

• inconsiderate behavior

Abusive relationships are based on an ​imbalance of power & control

One person is making all the decisions— ​about sexual choices, friend groups, ​boundaries, even what’s true and what’s ​not. You spend all of your time together ​and feel like you can’t talk to other ​people, especially about what’s really ​happening in your relationship.

• accusations

• blame shifting

• isolation pressure ​• manipulation

This project described was supported by Grant Number 90EV0426 from the ​Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services ​Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The opinions, ​findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed in this publication ​are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the ​Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Family and Youth Services ​Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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