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== First steps ==
# Make sure that you and your children are safe. This may mean leaving the family home for awhile and staying with friends or staying in a transition house. (Look in the Yellow pages under "Crisis Centres" or call [[VictimLinkVictimLINK]]). The local police station can also give you information about transition houses and other victim services.)
# If the abuse involves physical or sexual violence, consider reporting it to the police. Staff at local transition houses and victim services groups can support you in doing this.
# If you want the abuser to stay away from you, you can ask the police to ask a judge for a "no contact order" to prevent or limit the abuser from having contact with you or your children. Ask the police to give you contact information for a victim services worker.