Your plan

This safety plan includes some questions for you to answer.

What are your contact details?

Write your name.

Write where you live.

Write your phone number.

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Who can help you in an emergency?

An emergency:

• is a dangerous situation 
• is a thing we don’t expect to happen 
• can put your health and safety at risk. 

Write down the phone numbers of people you can call for help.

You can call emergency services.

Emergency services can come to help you when you are in danger.

They include:

• police
• firefighters
• ambulance.

You can call 000 if you are in danger.

You can contact support services.

For example:

• domestic and family violence services‍
• sexual assault services.

Sexual assault is when someone:

• makes you do sexual things you don’t want to do
• does something sexual to you that you don’t want them to do.

Write the names and numbers of support services.

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Write the number of a person you can call:

• who can help you
• who you trust.

1800RESPECT can support you if you are experiencing domestic and family violence.

You can call them any time.

Phone: 1800 737 732

You can send them a text message.

0458 737732

If you send them a text message, you can just send the word ‘HELLO’.

You can visit their website and use their:

• online chat service
• video chat service.

Website: www.1800respect.org.au

Do you have a safe place to go?

You can write down information about safe places you can go.

Write the address of a friend or family member’s home you can go to.

Write how you will get there.

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You might need an accessible way to travel to your safe place.

When a way to travel is accessible, it is easy to:

• find and use
• get to places.

Write what support you need to travel to your safe place. 

Write what support you might need to look after your children in your safe place.

You might need to tell someone if you have to go to your safe place.

For example, a family member.

Write the names of people you need to tell.

Who can support you when you don’t feel safe?

You might need to talk to someone if you don’t feel safe.

For example:

• your family
• the police
• domestic and family violence support services.

Write the name of someone you can call.

Write down how you will contact them.

For example, you might call them or send them a letter.

Do you have money to support yourself?

You might need money to support yourself.

You might control your own money.

Or someone else might control it.

You might need money you can get:

• quickly
• in an emergency.

Write down where you can keep some money safe.

For example:

• hidden in your wardrobe
• or with someone you trust.

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You might need money for transport to get to your safe place.

Write down where you will keep money for transport.

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What support will you need?

You might have a support worker or carer.

A support worker is someone you pay to provide you with care.

Write down the name of your support worker or carer. 

Write down how you will tell your support worker or carer where you are going.

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How will you keep your identity documents safe?

Identity documents are documents that:

• show who you are
• have your personal information on them.

For example, your:

• birth certificate
• bank card
• Medicare card.

Write what identity documents you have.

Write where you keep your identity documents.

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Think about how you can keep your identity documents safe if you have to go to your safe place.

You might give a copy of your identity documents to someone you trust.

Write who you give a copy of your identity documents to.

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What other things should you think about?

You might have pets.

Write what you will do with your pets if you need to go to your safe place.

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You might need support to move around.

For example, if you use a wheelchair.

Write down any support you need to move around.

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Write any support you need to communicate.

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Your disability might affect how you see or hear.

Write any supports you might need.

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You might get support from a disability support service.

Write which services or people give you support. 

Write what type of support you get from your disability support service.

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You might need support for other parts of your life.

Write what type of support you might need.

You might know about other support that has helped you feel safe before.

Write what other support has helped you feel safe.

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You might have ideas about what can help you feel safer right now.

Write what you can do to feel safer.