Travel assistance is available for victims of violence who need to escape an unsafe situation or get access to services outside their community. Call Victim Services at 867-667-8500 or visit yukon.ca/gbv-travel to find out more.
If you're in immediate danger or fear for your safety, phone 911.
You do not have to be afraid for your life to seek assistance or support. Find out about the Travel Assistance Fund.
It may be safer for you to run outside where other people can see and hear you.
Try to get to a phone.
You do not have to be afraid for your life to seek assistance or support.
If you or your abuser recently received Canadian citizenship, calling the police does not mean:
Your abuser may use this as a threat to keep you from phoning.
Take your children with you when you leave for safety. Some people tell us they've had trouble getting custody of their children after leaving an abusive situation.
Keep these items in a safe place (for example at a friend’s or family member’s home, with a lawyer, or in a safety deposit box). Make copies and keep the copies in a separate place from the originals.
Important documents include:
Keep all the cards you normally use in your wallet. Keep your wallet and purse or bag handy, containing the following:
In case you have to leave quickly, keep the following items handy:
Take your children with you when you leave for safety. Some people tell us they've had trouble getting custody of their children after leaving an abusive situation.
Contact Victim Services to get more information about children and their safety.
Open a bank account in your own name and arrange that:
Save and set aside as much money as you can.
Everyone's situation is different. You may want to consider the following:
For more information on safety planning:
Think about places you and your children could go where you will be safe.
You can stay for 30 days, in most situations.
Everything you tell the staff will be kept confidential. However, if they suspect a child is being abused or neglected then they must report this to Family and Children’s Services.
Contact Victim Services to apply for an emergency intervention order or a victim assistance order to remove the abuser from the house.
Apply for emergency financial help if you need to make repairs to make your house safe, for example:
Apply for a child care subsidy. There are provisions for emergency situations.
Contact your phone provider to get a new cellphone number or Northwestel (1-888-423-2333) to change your landline number.
Contact Canada Post to have your mail forwarded to your new address.
Renew or replace your health care card.
After 90 days of separation. Phone the Canada Revenue Agency 1-800-387-1193.
Phone or go in to your bank.
Change the passwords of all your personal online accounts, including:
Choose a password your abuser will not be able to guess.
Print and/or save threatening or harassing:
These can be used as evidence of abuse.
This will prevent your abuser from seeing information you've viewed.
Your abuser may notice:
Children cannot stop the abuse. They often try to by distracting the abuser, or interfering in the abusive episode. It's important to tell children that the best and most important thing for them to do is keep themselves safe.
There are several ways to help you develop a safety plan with your children, including:
Rehearse with your children what they will say when they phone 911.
For example – an operator will answer: “police, fire, ambulance.” Your child says:
If children hang up the phone, the police may phone back. This could create a dangerous situation for yourself and your children.
Pick a safe place to meet your children, out of the home, after the situation is safe for you and them. This way you can easily find each other. Teach your children the safest route to the planned place of safety for them.
Read about the Ending Violence Association of BC.
Get support for a child victim of crime.
If you have children and you want custody, you should apply for a custody order right away.
The following services can help you find out about custody:
You can ask the passport office to put your children’s names on a security list. Then you'll be called if the parent using violence tries to get a passport for your children. Phone the Passport Service office toll-free 1-800-567-6868.
You must provide:
The passport office will put your children's names on a security list for 90 days. After that time you must reapply.
If your children have another nationality, contact the country’s embassy or consulate to ask them to refuse to issue passports for your children. Find consulate and embassy phone numbers.
If you think your activities (online and offline) are being monitored, you're probably right.
People who are abusive often want to know their victim’s every move and interaction. If this is something you’re experiencing, it’s important to think through how they might be tracking your online activity.
These tips can help you think through how to access information online more safely.
These store a lot of private information about what you view online:
Be careful how you use these. Use these devices for activities that won’t trigger violence – like looking up the weather.
Look up information about how to get help on a safe device, such as a public computer at the library.
Online accounts can include:
Your abuser may have or has had access to your online accounts. If so, it's helpful to update your usernames and passwords from a safe device.
You can set up a new email address that the abuser does not know about. Then, connect your online accounts to it, instead of the old email address the abuser knows.
It can be helpful to make the new address something that's more anonymous. Choose something other than your actual name, or a handle you're known by.
If you think you're being monitored, it might be dangerous:
You may want to keep using those devices or accounts for activities that will not trigger violence. Find safer devices (such as a public computer at the library) and make accounts to look up information about:
These leave a detailed digital trail of your communication. This can increase the risk that your abuser will know not only that you communicated, but the details of what you communicated.
This information on this page comes from the National Network to End Domestic Violence.
You can phone or drop in to talk to us (no appointment required) Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Email: victim.services@yukon.ca
In person: 212 Main Street, Suite 210 – 2nd floor
Phone: 867-667-8500
Toll free: 1-800-661-0408
In person: 813B 3rd Avenue
Phone: 867-993-5831
In person: 820 Adela Trail
Phone: 867-536-2541
