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The goals of the program are to reach possible victims of domestic violence who may not use the services of the shelter, but still need some education and safety planning surrounding issues of domestic violence. Our domestic violence coordinators are available to provide presentations on domestic violence to schools, businesses, and other organizations in Little Rock.
Domestic violence includes all types and levels of physical and sexual assaults, verbal and emotional abuse, coercion, threats, blaming, economic abuse, and intimidation as a means of controlling a partner's life and circumstances.
Some of the services provided include:
- One-on-one crisis intervention for victims of domestic violence, via phone or in person.
- Weekly support groups for victims that explore the dynamics of domestic violence.
- Referral services for victims about organizations in the community that can help them with their individual needs. These may include but are not limited to information about: shelters, counseling, legal aid, child care, housing, medical, financial counseling, job/career counseling, and criminal court assistance.
- Presentations in the community to organizations, businesses, hospitals, schools, Alert Centers, legal aid, volunteers, and concerned citizens about domestic violence and its effect on a community. Training is also available to professionals and victims alike who would like more education about domestic violence.
- Distribution of written materials regarding this topic.
The Domestic Violence Outreach Specialist can be contacted for assistance, information, or to schedule presentations at: 501-372-4242. 628 W. Broadway, Suite 300, NLR. E-mail address: fsa@fsainc.org.
Are you a perpetrator of domestic violence?
If so, there is help. Click here to find out more about Family Service Agency's Domestic Violence Intervention Program.
Are you a victim of domestic violence?
If you can answer "yes" to many of the following questions, it might be helpful for you to call Family Service Agency to seek out further information.
Does your partner...
- Use threats to leave or threaten suicide?
- Make you do illegal things?
- Threaten to report you to child abuse agencies?
- Treat you like a servant?
- Make ALL decisions without consulting you?
- Define all male/female roles in the home?
- Refuse to let you get or keep a job?
- Make you ask for money?
- Take your money?
- Keep financial matters a secret from you?
- Threaten to take your children away?
- Make you feel responsible for the abuse?
- Hit you, slap you, or kick you?
- Make you feel bad about yourself?
- Make you think you are crazy?
- Call you names?
- Control who your friends are?
- Smash things to intimidate you?
- Harm or threaten to harm your pets?
- Display weapons in an effort to intimidate you?
If you are in an abusive relationship and are considering leaving, here is a Safety Plan to increase safety while in the relationship and after the relationship is over.
SAFETY PLAN
In the Relationship
- I will have important phone numbers available to my children and myself.
- I can tell ____________ and ______________ about the violence and ask them to call the police if they hear suspicious noises coming from my home.
- If I leave my home I can go: (List four places).
- I can leave extra money, car keys, clothes, and copies of documents with _______.
- If I leave, I will bring (see checklist).
- To ensure safety and independence, I can: keep change for phone calls with me at all times; open my own savings account; rehearse my escape route with a support person; and review safety plan on ____________ (date).
When the Relationship is Over
- I can: change the locks, install steel/metal doors, a security system, smoke detectors and an outside lighting system.
- I will inform _______________ and _____________ that my partner no longer lives with me and ask them to call the police if s/he is observed near my home or my children.
- I will tell people who take care of my children the names of those who have permission to pick them up. The people who have permission are: ___________ and ______________. (List as many as needed).
- I can tell ______________ at work about my situation and ask ____________ to screen my calls.
- I can avoid stores, banks, and ____________________ that I used when living with my battering partner.
- I can obtain a protective order from _____________________. I can keep it on or near me at all times as well as leave a copy with ___________________.
- If I feel down and ready to return to a potentially abusive situation, I can call _____________ for support groups or attend workshops and support groups and strengthen my relationships with other people.
Items to Take Checklist
- Identification
- Birth certificates for me and children
- Social Security Cards
- School and Medical Records
- Money, bankbooks, credit cards
- Keys - house/car/office
- Driver's license and registration
- Medications
- Change of clothes
- Welfare identification
- Passports, Green Cards, work permits
- Divorce papers
- Lease/rental agreement/house deed
- Mortgage payment book, current unpaid bills
- Insurance papers
- Address book
- Pictures, jewelry, items of sentimental value
- Children's favorite toys and blankets
For assistance with the safety plan, please call the Domestic Violence Specialist at 219-2503.
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