Checklist for What to Take When You Leave

Helpful Items to Pack

Identification

  • Children's birth certificates
  • Driver's license
  • Social security cards
  • Welfare identification

Legal

  • Car registration and insurance papers
  • Custody / visitation papers
  • Divorce papers
  • Health and life insurance papers
  • Lease, rental agreement, house deed
  • Medical records for you and your children
  • Passports
  • School records
  • Work permit / green card / Visa
  • Your Order of Protection

Financial

  • Bank books
  • Checkbooks
  • Money and/or credit cards

Other

  • Address book
  • Changes of clothes for you and your children
  • Children's small toys
  • House and car keys
  • Jewelry
  • Medications / toiletries / diapers
  • Phone card
  • Pictures of you, children, and the abuser

Contact Us

If you feel you may be at risk, call our 24-hour crisis line now at (309) 827-7070.