What is the Queensland Health Victim Support Service?
The Queensland Health Victim Support Service is a statewide service that provides information and support to victims of mentally ill offenders. The Service provides assistance to the direct victims of an offence, the parents or guardians of a young victim or a victim who has legal incapacity, family members of a victim, and other people who have been directly harmed by the offence. The Queensland Health Victim Support Service can help victims by: • providing information and support in understanding the forensic mental health system and its processes • assisting with access to entitlements, including applications for patient information orders and making statements and submissions • providing counselling, court support and referrals • providing information to registered victims in relation to classified and forensic patient information orders • raising awareness of the needs of victims with staff of mental health and related services. What are the provisions for community safety? Only t
