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24 Hour Crisis Hotline
(806) 273-2313

Please read the information below. If you are in an abusive situation and need help, please call the 24 Hour Crisis Line. Collect calls are accepted.

  • Have low self-esteem
  • Have poor coping skills
  • Need to feel superior
  • Have poor communication skills
  • Have grown up in violent homes

 

Why a Person being Abused Stays…

  • FEAR – Leaving may provoke worse violence
  • SHAME – Feeling like a failure and to blame for the abuse
  • HOPE – That the abuser will change
  • ISOLATION – No job, money, friends or family support

Without help abuse will increase!

 

Are you in a violent, abusive situation?

Emotional Abuse

Does your partner:

  • Ignore your feelings?
  • Ridicule or insult your most valued beliefs, your religion, race, heritage or class?
  • Withold approval, appreciation or affection as punishment?
  • Continually criticize you, call you names, shout at you?
  • Humiliate you in private or public?
  • Make all decisions for you, control you?
  • Manipulate you with lies and contradictions?

Do you:

  • Ever doubt your own judgement?
  • Develop fears of doing the ‘wrong’ thing?
  • See others less and less frequently?
  • Feel less confident and more depressed?

 

Physical Abuse

Does your Partner:

  • Push or shove you?
  • Hold you and keep you from leaving?
  • Slap or bite you?
  • Kick or choke you?
  • Throw objects at you?
  • Lock you out of your house or car?
  • Threaten to hurt you with a weapon?
  • Refuse to help you when you are sick?

Do you:

  • Feel fearful of the next assault?
  • Wonder if it will be worse the next time?

 

Sexual Abuse

Does your partner:

  • Insist on unwanted or uncomfortable touching?
  • Force unwanted sex acts?
  • Call you sexual names like ‘whore’ or ‘frigid’?

Do you:

  • Feel sexually ashamed or humiliated, or believe that no-one else would want you sexually?

 

Hutchinson County Crisis Center is dedicated to ending the cycle of violence. To that end we provide confidential:

  • Safe residence for women, men and children in crisis.
  • Assistance in obtaining housing, employment, education, clothing, food, household items and transportation
  • Advocacy & accompaniment through medical, legal and the judicial system
  • Coordination of sevice with other helping agencies
  • Support group adult/teen/child
  • Interactive listening
  • Follow up and walk-in peer counseling
  • Parenting skills training
  • Life skills
  • ESL
  • Children’s curriculum, schools, daycare, group
  • Crime victims compensation assistance
  • Community education and prevention
  • Structured education Kindergarten through college

 

The volunteers, employees and Board of Directors of the Hutchinson County Crisis Center affirm that each person in an abusive situation has the right to:

  • Not be abused
  • Address the anger over past abuse
  • Choose to change the situation
  • Freedom from fear of abuse
  • Request and expect assistance from the criminal justice system and social service agencies
  • Share feelings and not be isolated from others
  • Want a better role model for the children in the household
  • Be treated like an adult
  • Leave the battering environment
  • Privacy
  • Legally procecute the abuser
  • Respect of her/his own value system
  • Have her/his spiritual needs acknowledged and respected
  • Joy and peace in daily living

We want to help. Pass it on…

(806) 273-2313
Collect Calls Accepted