Intimate Partner Violence

Does Your Partner...

• Hit, kick, shove or injure you?
• Use weapons/objects against you or threaten todo so?
• Force or coerce you to engage in unwanted sexual acts?
• Threaten to hurt you or others, have you deported, disclose sexual orientation or other personal information?
• Control what you do and who you see in a way that interferes with your work, education or other personal activities?
• Use technology to track, monitor or frighten you?
• Steal or destroy your belongings?
• Constantly criticize you, call you names or put you down?
• Make you feel afraid?
• Deny you basic needs such as food, housing, clothing or medical or physical assistance?

If you’ve answered yes to any of the questions above, know help is available. Please see the National Resource Centre of Domestic Violence's You Are Not Alone section.

1. Tensions Builidng
   • Tensions increase, breakdown of communication, victim becomes fearful and feels the need to placate the abuse
2. Incident
   • Verbal, emotional & physical abuse
   • Anger, blaming, arguing
   • Threats, intimidation
3. Reconciliation
   • Abuser apologizes
   • Gives excuses for their actions
   • Denies the abuse occurred or denies it being as bad as the victim claims
4. Calm
   • Incident is "forgotten"
   • No abuse is taking place
   • "Honeymoon phase"
   • Slips back into phase 1

Adapted from Wikimedia Commons Avanduyn (2009) Cycle of Abuse Chart: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cycle_of_Abuse.png

Saskatchewan has the highest rate of Intimate Partner Violence in Canada.

• There were 732 incidents of domestic violence per 100,000 people in Saskatchewan in 2022 (Stats Canada).
• Saskatchewan also had the highest rate of family violence reported to police at 730 victims per 100,000 people.

This means that in 2022, Saskatchewan had triple the rate of IPV occurrences when compared to Ontario.

Statistics Canada, The Daily, Trends in police-reported family violence and intimate partner violence, 2022. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily- quotidien/231121/dq231121b-eng.ht

Safety planning has helped many people in IPV
relationships. Safety plans are helpful in case of
emergency, for those who are leaving an IPV relationship or staying in one. Some parts of a safety plan may include:

• Consider telling others you trust, such as friends, family, neighbors and co-workers, what is happening and talk about ways they might be able to help.
• Memorize emergency numbers for the local police, support persons and crisis hot-lines.
• Identify escape routes and places to go if you need to flee from an unsafe situation quickly.
• Talk with your children and/or other household members about what they should do if a violent incident occurs or if they are afraid.
• Put together an emergency bag with money/checkbooks, extra car keys, medicine, and important papers such as birth certificates, social insurance cards, drivers license, and health cards. Keep it somewhere safe and accessible, such as with a trusted friend or at your place of work.
• Trust your instincts — if you think you are in immediate danger, you probably are.
• If you are afraid for your safety and want the police to come to where you are now, call 911.

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (n.d.) Finding Safety & Support: Domestic Violence Putting it Together. United States: https://vawnet.org/sites/default/files/assets/files/NRCDV_Finding-SafetyEnglish-Updated2023.pdf

Fillable Safety Plan - Sask. Ministry of Justice

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INFORMATION & SUPPORT LINKS

IPV Resources - Government of Saskatchewan

https://pathssk.org/about-abuse/

                                           (Prince Albert Police Commission, September 16, 2025)