Do you feel safe at home?

Does your partner...

• Hit, push, restrain, hurt or shove you?

• Isolate you from family and friends?

• Embarrass you or make fun of you in front of others?

• Blame you for all of their problems?

• Scare you?

• Threaten to hurt you if you leave?

• Threaten to commit suicide if you leave?

• Damage your property?

• Get extremely angry (often without reason)?

• Use alcohol or drugs as an excuse for hurting you?

• Pressure you to use drugs or alcohol?

• Pressure you to have sex?

• Try to control who you see, what you do, where you go, or what you wear?

• Become extremely jealous?

• Intimidate you?

• Abuse the family pet/s?

• Follow you, check up on you, and accuse you of cheating?

• Use social media to track who you communicate with?

• Make you feel as if no one else will want you and that there is no way out of the relationship?

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If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may be experiencing domestic violence.

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Cumberland County Department of Social Service

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Domestic Violence Services​

 

The CARE Family Violence Program provides domestic violence services to victims, children and the abusers. This program strives to end violence in the home and assist individuals to establish and maintain positive, nonviolent relationships. The services available at the CARE Center include: a safe house, crisis line, advocacy, legal information, training, case management, individual counseling, parenting workshop, women’s and children’s support groups and RESOLVE - Domestic Violence Intervention Program (batterer's treatment) which is a specialized course designed to teach perpetrators of abuse to end the violence in their relationships. With the exception of the RESOLVE program, services at the CARE Center are provided at no cost.

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The office is located in the Department of Social Services building at 1225 Ramsey Street. Crisis Line assistance is available 24 hours a day including weekends and holidays. Call 910-677-2532. For all other non-crisis business with the Care Center, please call 910-677-2528.

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