What You Need and Do When Preparing to Leave
IDENTIFICATION
- Driver’s license
- Children’s Birth Certificates
- Your birth certificate
- Social Security Card
- Welfare Identification
- Medical Insurance Cards
MONEY
- Money and/or credit cards
- Debit Cards
- Checkbook
LEGAL DOCUMENTS
- Lease, rental agreement, or deed to house/properties
- Car registration and insurance papers
- Health and life insurance papers
- Medical records for you and your children
- School and shot records
- Work permits/green card or visa
- Passport
- Divorce papers
- Custody papers
OTHER THINGS
- Keys to house, car and safety deposit boxes
- Cell phone
- Clothing
- Toiletries
- Medications for you and your children
THINGS TO DO
- Open a savings account in your own name. Get your own post office box so that you can receive mail and checks
- Plan who to stay with or who would be able to lend you money during a crisis
- Contact the hotline or any shelter for help in safety planning and keep the hotline number with you at all times: 602-263-8900 or 1-800-799-7739