Know your rights, where to get help and ways to help yourself
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Know your rights
What is Stalking?
(Separate Website)
What is stalking? What are some legal definitions? Is the threatening nature of stalking always apparent? How prevalent is stalking? These questions and many more are answered in this resource.
By: Stalking Resource Center
Answers to Your Questions about Victims' and Witnesses' Rights This resource has information on Crimes Covered by the Victim Rights Act; The Victim Rights Act; Law Enforcement Responsibilities; Agency Responsibilities; Department of Corrections Responsibilities; Probation Department Responsibilities ... and more.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch and Colorado Legal Services
Are You Being Abused?
(Separate Website)
When one person scares, hurts or continually puts down the other person, it's abuse. This information will help you understand the meaning of abuse.
By: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
Immigrant Women and Abuse
(Separate Website)
If you are an immigrant to the United States, and you are a victim of domestic violence or rape, here are some suggestions we hope will help you.
By: Women's Justice Center
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Emergency Legal Assistance for Victims
(Separate Website)
Aiding victims through trauma intervention, emergency legal assistance and advocacy, crisis court support and intervention services.
By: Project Safeguard
National Domestic Violence Hotline - 1.800.799.SAFE (7233)
(Separate Website)
Call this number for help or go to the website to learn about more help available to domestic violence victims. Assistance is available in both English and Spanish. Hotline advocates and volunteers also have access to translators in 139 languages.
By: National Domestic Violence Hotline
Domestic Violence - Taking Action and Getting Help
(Separate Website)
This resource provides information about to plan ahead in case of a Domestic Violence emergency, seeking help in an emergency and additional hotlines, shelters and support resources available to victims of domestic violence. (Note: the shelters listed are primarily in Seattle, please refer to other resources within this site for local shelter information.)
By: Multilingual Access Project
Read this in:
Chinese / 中文
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Russian / Pусский
,
Spanish / Español
Staying Safe While Going to Court
(Separate Website)
This site has instructions on how to stay safe while going to court, as well as information about preserving evidence to use in court, plus much more.
By: womenslaw.org
Legal Momentum:helping victims of domestic violence maintain their jobs and their housing
(Separate Website)
Legal Momentum has a project focusing on helping victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking maintain their jobs and their housing while taking steps to address the violence. Many updated materials and additional resources.
By: Legal Momentum
Teenage Dating and Violence
(Separate Website)
Many topics are covered on this site including, the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline, identifying abuse and what to do if you are victim. This resource also facilitates an interactive Live Chat with an advocates, how support a friend involved with dating violence and the teen dating Bill of Rights.
By: loveisrespect.org
The Effects of DV on Children
(Separate Website)
Potential effects, parents, safety, age-specific indicators, working with children, statistics and a child's own safety plan all can be found on this site.
By: ACADV
What is a Protection Order?
(Separate Website)
There is a lot of information about protective orders (used to be called restraining orders) on this website, including how to go about getting one, who will help serve the papers and more.
By: Colorado Legal Services
How to Get a New Social Security Number
(Separate Website)
If you are a victim of domestic violence and need to relocate and establish a new identity, it may be helpful to get a new Social Security number. Social Security (not routinely) will assign a new number to an individual when evidence shows they are being harassed, abused or their life is endangered.
By: Social Security Online
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Healing the Invisible Wounds: Children's Exposure to Violence
(Separate Website)
This resource helps parents and other caregivers understand the potential impact of exposure to violence on the development of their children.
By: Safe Start Center
Managing Your Divorce: A Guide for Battered Women
(Separate Website)
This guide is intended to be used by battered women who are representing themselves, without an attorney, in court cases involving child custody. It includes chapters on finding an attorney, financial considerations, custody and divorce mediation, gathering evidence for trial, unsupervised visitation and safety planning, tips for dealing with custody evaluators, guidelines for selecting an expert witness, relocation, and many more. Please be sure to read the introduction!
By: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
Office of Dispute Resolution
(Separate Website)
If you have a legal dispute, the Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) may be able to help. This link will take you to their homepage. The ODR exists to establish and make available dispute resolution programs and services within the Colorado Judicial Branch.
By: Colorado Judicial Branch
Stop Family Violence
(Separate Website)
Stop Family Violence serves as a catalyst for social change, empowering people to take action at the local, state and national level to ensure safety, justice, accountability and healing for people whose lives are affected by violent relationships.
By: Stop Family Violence
Talk with a Lawyer on Law Line 9
An advice line providing brief direction on legal problems.
By: Channel 9 News in Denver, Colorado
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