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Domestic Violence |
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Are you or is someone you
know being emotionally or physically abused? |
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Warning Signs |
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If you answer yes to several of the
following questions, we urge you to pick up the telephone and seek help
day or night |
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For yourself…
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your partner shove, hit, shake or slap you? |
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your partner make light of the abuse, insist that it didn’t happen, or
shift the responsibility for his abusive behavior, blaming you for it?
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your partner continually put you down, call you names, or humiliate you?
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your partner intimidate you through looks or actions, destroy your
property, or display weapons? |
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your partner control what you do, who you see and talk to, and where you
go, limiting your involvement outside the relationship? |
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you made to feel guilty about the children, or has your partner
threatened to take the children away? |
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For family and friends…
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● Does
she appear anxious, depressed, withdrawn, and reluctant to talk? |
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her partner criticize her in front of you, making remarks that make you
feel uncomfortable when you’re around the two of them? |
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you see or hear about repeated bruises, broken bones, or other injuries
that reportedly result from "accidents"? |
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her partner try to control her every move, make her account for her
time, and accuse her of having affairs? |
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she often late or absent from work, has she quit a job altogether, or
does she leave social engagements early because her partner is waiting
for her? |
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Seek Help |
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National Domestic Violence: |
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- 1 (800) 799-SAFE / 1
(800) 799-7233/ 1 (800) 787-3224 TDD |
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- 1 (800) 942-6908
Spanish Speaking
24-hour-a-day hotline, Provides crisis intervention and referrals to
local services and shelters for victims of partner or spousal abuse.
English and Spanish speaking advocates are available 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. |
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Tulare County Health and Human Services |
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Government Plaza |
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5957 South Mooney Blvd |
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Visalia, California 93291 |
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Phone (559) 737-4533 Fax
(559) 737-4693 |
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Shelters: |
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Good News Inn |
734-1572 |
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Tulare Women's Shelter |
685-9515 |
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Visalia Women's Shelter |
732-5941 |
Open Gate Ministries, Dinuba
(Emergency Short Term Housing) |
591-1241 |
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Porterville Mission , Project Shelter |
781-7468 or 784-0192 |
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Legal & Personal Rights
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Family Services |
732-2514 |
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Family Violence 24-Hour Hotline |
1-800-448-2044 |
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Porterville Mission Project |
781-7462 |
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Victim/Witness Assistance |
733-6755 |
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Legal Aid |
1-800-350-3654 or
733-8770 |
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