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Prevention and Recognition through Education

Through learning about what abuse is, how it effects those involved, how to recognize it, and how to seek help, we hope to lead the way to communities where all are treated with respect and diginity, and where nobody needs to feel scared or unsafe in their own home or community.

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How Do I Know if I am Being Abused?

Does Your Partner...

Hurt you by calling you names, insulting or embarrassing you?
Isolate you by keeping you from your family and friends?
Act possessive or jealous and need to know where you are at all times?
Claim you are crazy, play mind games, and tell you that you caused or deserve to be abused?
Threaten to take the children or report you to welfare or other authorities?
Destroy things that are important to you or hurt or threaten to hurt pets?
Scare you, threaten to kill you or threaten to commit suicide?
Hurt you physically by pushing, hitting, kicking, or slapping you?

Sexual Assualt is..

Sexual contact while you are under the influence of alcohol or drugs and are unable to give consent.
Sexual contact without agreeing or giving permission
Sexual contact under pressure from threats of emotional and/or physical harm.
Sexual contact continuing after you have said you want to stop
Sexual contact under the age of 16

You have the right to say NO even if you are:

Married
Living together
Dating
Sexually active