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You do not need to know which resource you need. Choose the statement that feels most true, and this page will route you to one practical next step.
Which statement is closest?
You do not have to select the perfect category. Choose the closest one. Every path gives you a specific next action.
It can reduce the number of decisions in front of you. It is not emergency response, legal advice, therapy, or medical care.
I do not feel safe
Do not begin with proving what happened. Begin with reducing access and increasing support.
This may be another room, a public place, a trusted person, or emergency services.
Use direct language and say what you need from them today.
Some changes can alert a person who is monitoring you.
Your next step
Open the Safety Planning tool and choose the section that matches your situation.
Open safety planningI want to save evidence
Your first job is not creating a perfect case. It is preventing useful information from disappearing.
Do not use an account or device the unsafe person can access.
Keep screenshots, messages, photos, recordings, and files in their original form when possible.
Context is easier to preserve now than reconstruct later.
Your next step
Open the Documentation Toolkit and start with the evidence type you already have.
Open documentation toolkitI am thinking about reporting
Preparation does not obligate you to report. It gives you more control if you decide to move forward.
Police, a hospital, school, employer, court, licensing body, or another institution.
Who, what, when, where, current safety concern, and what you are asking them to do.
Know what exists before deciding what to share.
Your next step
Use the reporting tool to prepare your summary, questions, and follow-up record.
Prepare before reportingI need medical care
You can seek care without deciding whether to report to law enforcement.
Include pain, marks, dizziness, memory gaps, nausea, bleeding, strangulation, substances, or loss of consciousness.
You can request clear documentation of what you report and what the provider observes.
The answers may affect where and how you seek care.
Your next step
Use the Sexual Assault or Immediate Danger resource page to find the right type of medical support.
Find medical supportI asked for help and it went badly
A harmful response can become part of the record. Preserve what you asked for and what the institution did.
Do this before details fade.
Keep your request separate from their response.
Do not rely on the institution to preserve the record for you.
Your next step
Open the Bad System Response tool and document the interaction as its own incident.
Document the responseI do not know what comes first
Do only these three things. You can stop after one.
Do not build a full plan yet.
A message, photo, name, date, report number, or memory note.
You do not have to tell the whole story.
Your next step
Choose whichever of the three actions feels possible. One completed action is enough.
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