Radio 4 Today guest editor Mina Smallman, whose daughters were murdered last year, focuses on Victim Support.
"I can't explain how it changed life for me and my family. I lost a daughter, very suddenly, very violently," Julie says."It could be simple things like a song comes on the radio, or a smell. Straight away you get that physical pain in your chest, you're back in that moment of absolute despair and devastation.
Julie says she has joined "a club that you don't want to belong to" - people who have lost loved ones to homicide.New figures from Victim Support, seen by the BBC, suggest a rise of nearly 20% in its caseload, compared with before the pandemic. The charity's figures show cases involving violence with injury have gone up by 20%, domestic abuse cases are up 27%, and hate crime cases are up 6%.
Julie volunteers as a peer support worker with the charity, which means she mentors and counsels others who have gone through similar experiences. She describes it as a "two-way thing", where she can both give and receive help. "I don't know where I'd be without peer support."
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