Are you a victim of domestic violence or know of someone who may be?  Domestic violence can affect anyone, anywhere.  Domestic violence happens between adults who are either related by blood (parent/adult child, grandparent/adult child, siblings, etc..), by marriage, by those who are separated or share a child in common or between adults who live together.  One of the adults is getting hurt either physically, verbally, emotionally, sexually, or mentally.  Often the laws only recognize and punish the physical and verbal abuse.  The Rainbow House recognizes that all types of abuses that can occur within an abusive relationship.

We also recognize that children can be deeply affected by abuse they are hearing and seeing.  Please feel free to see what services our Youth Advocates can offer Children and Teens living in homes where domestic violence is taking place.

Below is the Power and Control Wheel.  At the center of the wheel is the power and control that an abuser uses over the victim in their relationship.  The different pieces of the wheel are all different ways that power and control is used. Please note that it takes only one aspect of the wheel to make a relationship abusive if done more than once.  Physical abuse is not the sole determination if a relationship is abusive.  A relationship can still be abusive without physical abuse.

For more information on the cycle of abuse, abuse characteristics,

safety plans, and more click on the following links.

 CYCLE OF ABUSE

ABUSE CHARACTERISTICS

SAFETY PLANS AND TIPS

SIGNS OF AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP

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