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Question
Without Notice
No.
570
asked in the
Legislative
Council
on
12 September 2017
by
Hon Nick Goiran
Minister responding:
Hon R.H. Cook
Parliament:
40
Session:
1
Answered on
12 September 2017
SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTRE
570.
Hon NICK GOIRAN
to the parliamentary secretary representing the Minister for Health:
I refer to the Sexual Assault Resource Centre, primarily located on the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women site, and its delivery of outreach services in Joondalup.
(1) What is the average wait time from time of initial contact with SARC to time of first appointment with the outreach centre in the Joondalup area?
(2) What access to quality counselling and support services is available for victims of sexual assault residing at an impractical distance from either KEMH or Joondalup?
Hon ALANNA CLOHESY
replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. I am advised as follows.
(1) The average wait time is 38 days.
(2) In addition to a main office and clinic run from the King Edward Memorial Hospital site in Subiaco, the Sexual Assault Resource Centre runs outreach clinics at seven venues across the metropolitan area, providing quality counselling and support services to people who have experienced a sexual assault. The outreach clinics are located in Joondalup, Clarkson, Midland, Gosnells, Armadale, Fremantle and Rockingham. A range of other non-government and private counselling/therapy services not specific to sexual assault operate across the metropolitan area.