A 3-hour online training course for professionals involved in advocacy work for vulnerable populations that may include sex workers, providing information on how best to support sex workers. It will include interactive elements and attendees are expected to type or to speak out loud and participate at points to pass this training.
This course will cover:
- What issues you can expect service users to bring up, that are related to sex work.
- Sex workers' dignity of risk.
- The law around sex work and earnings made from it.
- Background knowledge about sex work and its impacts.
- Safeguarding sex workers and spotting abuse.
- How to build trust with the community and signal that you are a safe person for sex workers to come out to.
- Resources which can be offered to sex worker service users.
- Advertising your advocacy to sex workers.
The course will also include a 30-minute Q&A session afterwards, for those with further questions about the material or supporting sex worker service users. UK (GMT) timezone, with discussions about the law focusing on the UK! After the training, you/your organisation will also have the option to be added to a directory of those who have completed it, to be shared among sex workers.
Hosted by Jack Parker (he/they), a transmasculine person with lived experience in sex work who has worked as a peer support worker for sex workers, hosted a drop-in for sex workers, created safety resources, and provided training for professionals working with sex workers.
You'll get an e-mail to the address you signed up with, a few days before the training, that includes a link to the Zoom session. You will also get an e-mail reminder the day before and shortly before the session starts, including the link again.