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When home is not safeStep 1 of 8

Before you read on

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Lesson 5 of 6

The thing that can actually change

Not him. This is the lesson where a course usually starts telling you how to handle the person, and this course is not going to, because handling him is not a skill and it is not available.

The thing that can change is preparation. Decisions made in advance, while thinking is still possible, so that on the day when thinking is not possible there is already something in place.

That is all a safety plan is. It is not a document and it is not a promise to leave. It is the difference between a bad night where you have nowhere to go and a bad night where you know exactly where to go.

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