External resource
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Confidential support, safety planning, crisis intervention, and referrals for domestic violence and relationship abuse.
Phone1-800-799-7233
TextText START to 88788
Hours24/7
Resource topic
Domestic Violence
Choose the pressure you are dealing with today. You do not need to prove a complete pattern before seeking help.
Choose the pressure, not the organization
What do you need today?
Select the closest statement. Each path gives you a practical first step and then routes you to a small number of relevant services.
PATH 01I need safety planningBuild around what is possible today, including staying, leaving, children, pets, and devices.PATH 02I need a shelter or housing optionCompare emergency, transitional, hotel, pet, and transportation options.PATH 03I want to understand coercive controlLook at patterns of isolation, monitoring, financial control, threats, and punishment.PATH 04I need help documentingPreserve incidents, messages, injuries, financial records, witnesses, and agency responses.PATH 05I need legal informationFind protection order, custody, immigration, and victim-rights resources.PATH 06I need identity-specific supportFind LGBTQ+, disability, cultural, language, or immigration-informed help.
Domestic abuse is not limited to physical violence
It can include coercive control, threats, stalking, sexual coercion, humiliation, isolation, financial control, identity-based abuse, interference with medical or disability care, and harm or threats involving children, chosen family, pets, or service animals.
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I need safety planning
Build around what is possible today, including staying, leaving, children, pets, and devices.
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Name the immediate outcome you need
Build around what is possible today, including staying, leaving, children, pets, and devices.
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Write down one constraint
Safety, privacy, money, transportation, children, pets, identity, immigration, disability, or timing.
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Use one primary resource first
You do not need to contact every organization on this page.
Your next step
Review the curated starting points below and choose one organization to contact.
See starting points02
I need a shelter or housing option
Compare emergency, transitional, hotel, pet, and transportation options.
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Name the immediate outcome you need
Compare emergency, transitional, hotel, pet, and transportation options.
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Write down one constraint
Safety, privacy, money, transportation, children, pets, identity, immigration, disability, or timing.
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Use one primary resource first
You do not need to contact every organization on this page.
Your next step
Review the curated starting points below and choose one organization to contact.
See starting points03
I want to understand coercive control
Look at patterns of isolation, monitoring, financial control, threats, and punishment.
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Name the immediate outcome you need
Look at patterns of isolation, monitoring, financial control, threats, and punishment.
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Write down one constraint
Safety, privacy, money, transportation, children, pets, identity, immigration, disability, or timing.
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Use one primary resource first
You do not need to contact every organization on this page.
Your next step
Review the curated starting points below and choose one organization to contact.
See starting points04
I need help documenting
Preserve incidents, messages, injuries, financial records, witnesses, and agency responses.
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Name the immediate outcome you need
Preserve incidents, messages, injuries, financial records, witnesses, and agency responses.
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Write down one constraint
Safety, privacy, money, transportation, children, pets, identity, immigration, disability, or timing.
☐
Use one primary resource first
You do not need to contact every organization on this page.
Your next step
Review the curated starting points below and choose one organization to contact.
See starting points05
I need legal information
Find protection order, custody, immigration, and victim-rights resources.
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Name the immediate outcome you need
Find protection order, custody, immigration, and victim-rights resources.
☐
Write down one constraint
Safety, privacy, money, transportation, children, pets, identity, immigration, disability, or timing.
☐
Use one primary resource first
You do not need to contact every organization on this page.
Your next step
Review the curated starting points below and choose one organization to contact.
See starting points06
I need identity-specific support
Find LGBTQ+, disability, cultural, language, or immigration-informed help.
☐
Name the immediate outcome you need
Find LGBTQ+, disability, cultural, language, or immigration-informed help.
☐
Write down one constraint
Safety, privacy, money, transportation, children, pets, identity, immigration, disability, or timing.
☐
Use one primary resource first
You do not need to contact every organization on this page.
Your next step
Review the curated starting points below and choose one organization to contact.
See starting pointsCurated starting points
A short list, with a reason for each
Availability, eligibility, hours, and response quality can change. Confirm details directly with the organization.
External resource
WomensLaw
Plain-language legal information and state-by-state resources.
External resource
NNEDV
Technology safety and domestic violence policy resources.
External resource
Colorado Address Confidentiality Program
Address-substitute services for eligible Colorado survivors.
Resource review note. Survivor Truth Foundation curates these starting points but does not control external eligibility, availability, confidentiality, cost, or response quality. Last reviewed July 2026. Report a broken or harmful resource through the anonymous question page.
Before you contact a service
Help them understand what you need quickly
Lead with the clearest facts first
Your emotions matter, and you do not need to hide them. When time is limited, beginning with observable facts can help a hotline, hospital, shelter, attorney, school, or agency understand urgency and route you to the right care faster.
- What happened and when
- Whether the person can reach you now
- Any injuries, threats, weapons, stalking, or forced contact
- Children, dependents, pets, or service animals affected
- Disability, communication, medication, mobility, or sensory needs
- Housing, money, transportation, phone, or identification barriers
- Your name and pronouns, if you want them used
- The specific help you are asking for today
You do not have to simplify your life to deserve help
A useful plan can include chosen family, LGBTQ+ safety concerns, older adults, disability-related care, immigration concerns, emotional or psychological abuse, financial control, children, pets, and service animals. Name the barriers that affect what is safe and possible for you.