General Resources:
Additional Denver Metro Area Resources:
Boulder County Safe House
24/hr hotline
(303) 444-2424
Safe House Denver
(303) 318-9989
Colorado Anti-Violence Program
(303) 852-5094
Alternatives to Family Violence
(303) 289-4441
Project Safeguard
(303) 637-7761
Gateway Battered Women’s Shelter
(303) 343-1851
Adams Community
Mental Health Center
(303) 853-3500
Aurora Mental Health Center
(303) 617-2300
Boulder Mental Health Center
(303) 433-8500
Comitis Crisis Center (Aurora)
(303) 341-9160
Denver Center for Crime Victims
(303) 860-0660
Jefferson County
Center for Mental Health
(303) 425-0300
Jefferson County
Child Advocacy Center
(303) 987-4885
Mental Health Corporation of Denver
(303) 377-4300
Servicios de la Raza
(mental health services in Spanish)
(303) 458-5851
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What is Domestic Violence?
Spouse or partner abuse is commonly termed "domestic violence". While it is a crime that is perpetrated by both genders, its victims are primarily women and often children. It is a crime that annually leaves 3 to 4 million women in the United States battered by their husbands or partners. It is a crime committed every 15 seconds, according to some estimates, with a woman and possibly her children, being victimized, most often in the one place where they should feel safe...the home.
Are You in an Abusive Relationship?
There are ways to tell. Your partner may not have physically hurt you (yet), but there are other “abusive tendencies” which can cause very real damage. They may also be a precursor to physical violence. Here’s a list of abusive behaviors. Your partner regularly:
- Withholds approval, appreciation or affection as punishment.
- Continually criticizes you, calls you names or shouts at you.
- Ignores your feelings regularly.
- Ridicules or insults your most valued beliefs, your religion, race, class or sexual preference.
- Is very jealous--harasses you about imagined affairs.
- Manipulates you with lies.
- Insists you dress the way he/she wants.
- Humiliates you in private or public.
- Insults or drives away your friends or family. Takes car keys or money away.
- Subjects you to reckless driving.
- Abuses pets to hurt you.
- Punches, shoves, slaps, bites, kicks, chokes or hits you.
- Rapes you or subjects you to other violent or degrading non-consensual sexual acts.
- Threatens to commit suicide if you leave.
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