Checklist For Important Items
These are the important items you should have with you when you decide to leave. Some of them can be kept somewhere other than at home. A person you trust could keep some of these items for you, or you could keep them at your workplace.
- Money
- Clothes and toiletries for a few nights
- Medications for you and your children
- Phone charger
- Credit card & bank account information
- Passwords and PINs to accounts
- Car and house keys
- Identification – driver’s license, passports, etc.
- Important paperwork and extra copies:
- Birth certificates for you and your children
- Marriage license
- Social security cards for you and your children
- Your work-related items
- Tax returns for at least the past two years and other tax documents
- Immigration documents
- Insurance information
- Lease agreement
- Mortgage papers
- Vehicle title
- Credit reports
- Retirement plan documents
- Divorce or other family law paperwork
- Photos of valuable family assets to prove condition and existence (car, home)
- Photos of apartment or rented home in case abuser damages it after you leave
- Prescriptions for you and your children
- Medical records for you and your children
- Protection order or no-contact order
- Police reports and case numbers
- Other evidence of abuse
- Phone numbers
- Your local domestic violence agency (425-252-2873 for Snohomish County)
- Any advocate you or your family has been working with
- Lawyers
- Legal aid
- Children’s schools
- Your doctor’s office
- Other emergency contacts
- For your children
- Snacks & toys for comfort
- Clothes