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Domestic Violence & Elder Abuse
What is Domestic Violence?
- Domestic violence is the use of abusive tactics and physical force to obtain and maintain power and control over a partner.
- Domestic violence happens in all sectors of society. It happens to people of all racial, economic, and religious groups.
- Domestic violence can include physical assault, sexual assault, emotional abuse, economic abuse and verbal abuse.
- Domestic violence never stops on its own. Once it starts, it gets progressively worse in frequency and severity.
Victim Assistance
VINE is an automated service that allows you to track an offender’s custody, probation and parole, court, sex offender, or protective order status over the phone or internet. You can register to be notified by phone and email if an offender is released, transferred, escapes, or appears in court; or registered to be notified by phone and email about changes in the status of a protective order or of a registered sex offender.
Who Can Help?
View important phone numbers and resources (PDF).
Calvert County Community Resources Guide (PDF)
Real Time Resources: One Love Foundation - Live Chat; Text Message; Call a Peer Advocate; Call the Hotline
Community Education Tools: Videos; Discussion Guides; Handouts
Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Safety Planning
Veterans Safety Planning Guide
Safety Planning Brochure (PDF)
Safety Planning Fill-in Worksheet (PDF)
Safety Planning with Children
"Helping Your Children Heal the Wounds of Witnessing Abuse" by Lundy Bancroft
National Network to End Domestic Violence - Technology Safety
Facts Victims of Strangulation Need to Know
Strangulation Assessment Card
Helpful Websites
National Network to End Domestic Violence
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
Maryland Health Care Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Workplaces Respond
S HR M - Better Workplaces, Better World
Children as an Abusive Mechanism
Healing the Invisible Wounds: Children's Exposure to Violence from the Safe Start Center
Regarding Elder Abuse:
Elder Safe
National Center on Elder Abuse
Elder Abuse Brochure
Elder Financial Abuse Brochure
Helpful Brochures
What Is a Protective Order?
Orders of Protection Brochure - Maryland (MD) Courts (PDF)
Extreme Risk Protective Order Brochure - MD Courts (PDF)
Domestic Violence Victim’s Handbook (PDF)
It Should Not Hurt to Go Home