LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

Thursday, 10 April 2014

ANGELHANDS

Statement by Member for Maylands Statement

MS L.L. BAKER (Maylands) [12.55 pm]: I am lucky enough to have angelhands in my electorate. Recognised internationally, angelhands believes it is a basic human right of victims of crime to have the right to have a voice; an established space to voice their experiences and have their voices heard by others; and the right to have relevant and current information and resources delivered in a proactive, affordable, and timely fashion. Angelhands offers support and strength to people who are bereaved by homicide or affected by serious assault. Angelhands’ peer support, virtual and physical resource library, training and referral services are all invaluable in helping to address the impacts of crime. Angelhands’ services accelerate a person’s recovery from trauma and assert their needs in the wider community. One of the ways angelhands offers support to victims of serious crime is through befriending. This is done through individual face-to-face contact, group mentoring, telephone support, email contact and angelhands web forum. Dr Ann O’Neill is a Perth-born woman, award-winning humanitarian, victimologist, educator and activist who is known internationally for her work.

She is the founder of angelhands and she has recently entered in to a partnership with Cambridge University’s Institute of Criminology to provide the World Society of Victimology’s international symposium on 5 to 9 July 2015 in Western Australia.

Team BAKER | Office of Lisa Baker MLA

MEMBER FOR MAYLANDS