We are the nation's oldest sex worker justice initiative offering wrap-around services and life affirming care to current and former sex workers across Toronto and the GTA. Through weekly drop in programming and monthly workshops, the programming also works to provide access to consistent, healthy meals, healthcare services and more. Our Street Outreach and Community Engagement Pilot Program is redefining street outreach, challenging harmful "peer" models of community engagement and working to connect , support and build relationships with street-based sex workers, offer direct and ongoing follow up in collaboration with our Case Management Program and develop volunteer, professional development and training opportunities for community members to collaborate on outreach strategy, training, development and more.
Since our community clinics have helped more than 6, community members access vital forms of testing, vaccination, referrals, and more, offering low-barrier, confidential services,. We're engaged in advocacy for the full decriminalization of sex work to remove harmful criminal laws that create precarious and unstable working conditions for our communities.
Sex workers are safe sex pros- our health, wellness and livelihood depends on access to harm reduction supplies, education and sex positive healthcare services. For sex positive venues, events and related businesses, we fulfill larger-scale harm reduction supply orders, host harm reduction counters, and offer on site harm reduction training, monitoring services and more.
The legal regulation of our work is complicated. Looking for more information on our work, programs, services and advocacy for sex workers across Toronto and the GTA? Communicating for the purposes of selling your own sexual services. Advertising your own sexual services. Working with other providers under the current legal framework and more. We also have in depths resources from the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform to help sex workers better understand each area of the law impacted by Bill C Increasingly sex workers have reported struggles with international travel, flagging the rise of artificial intelligence and biometric identification tools using specific features, body parts, etc.
Our Border Crossing resources feature key considerations for sex workers in a few specific contexts:. Travelling to Popular Holiday Destinations and International overviews of sex work regulation. The criminalization of sex work and resulting forms of stigma and prejudice against our communities shapes how other areas of the law, and important systems such as housing tribunals, landlord and tenant boards and child welfare services engage us in separate contexts.
