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Confidential conversation

IPV, domestic abuse, and trafficking screen

Original prompts aligned to the Housing Services Act definition of abuse and trafficking. This is not the Danger Assessment, HITS, WAST, or any scored clinical instrument. Use your agency’s mandated tool when required. Conduct this privately. Never with the alleged abuser present.

If someone is in immediate danger, stop the form and call 911. Assaulted Women’s Helpline: 1-866-863-0511 (TTY 1-866-863-7868). Human Trafficking Helpline: 1-833-999-9211. Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868. Talk4Healing (Indigenous women): 1-855-554-4325.
Indicators the person chooses to disclose

Check only what was actually said or clearly observed. Do not interrogate.

Current situation

Person expresses fear for their safety now?

Currently living with the person who caused the harm?

Summary will appear here

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After a disclosure

  • Believe the person. Do not ask “why didn’t you leave.”
  • Offer SPP + RGI and VAW / trafficking programs as parallel tracks.
  • Safety plan: documents, keys, medications, children’s items, safe contact, device security.
  • Duty to report only where child-protection or other mandatory-report statutes apply. Explain limits of confidentiality first when you can.
  • Code grounds often stacked: sex, family status, disability, citizenship, creed, race.