Do you carry information about your local battered women's shelter?

[gwheezie]

3. I have the numbers memorized

If you hand a woman information about a shelter or other services, make sure there is nothing to identify what that number is and don't giver her a written address. I'll write my first name and the number.I'm female so hopefully if the abuser finds the number it won't make things worse. I was almost killed by my ex husband, while I was still in the stage where I thought I could logically plan an escape before realizing I just had to run, he would have found any information I had. It would have made things worse. I work for a healthcare system that has a shelter and program for domestic violence, I tell people to come to our er and tell the er clerk they need shelter, that will set it in motion.
A friend of mine who I work with was almost killed by her boyfriend, she was lucky she was attacked in front of the hospital, he used a machete on her face, she would have died if she was home, he got her in the parking lot,her scars are very visible. We have on more than one occasion found someone outside the hospital afraid to come in and we bring her inside.