# If someone threatens to harm another person

An immediate threat requires appropriate available local emergency assistance. Preserve your safety and children's safety; do not independently disarm, restrain by force, or arrange a confrontation. A diagnosis or proof that harm will certainly occur need not come first.

Convey particular words or actions, time, location, and unknowns. Do not face danger to obtain recordings or further confirmation. Military history, faith, and psychiatric terminology alone replace no facts and do not define an entire person.

Care for the threatening person and safety for recipients are separate tasks. Compassion requires no dangerous meeting; children and relatives should not become solely responsible. Convey essentials to appropriate participants and clarify actual contact. This article distinguishes tasks while preserving your role limits and need for support too.