Financial Exclusion Financial ExclusionDownload Background For decades sex workers have been denied access to basic business financial tools based on anti sex work ideology describing sex workers as all victims of crime with control over our own finances. This ideology also promotes our exclusion from use of traditional financial tools in efforts to combat sex … Continue reading Financial exclusion
Human Trafficking and 2010 Olympics
Human trafficking is often a fear before hallmark sporting events. Members of our group engaged in research on whether this phenomenon really happens and what the effects of fear mongering "increased trafficking" are on sex working people. The authors research various locations and types of events across the planet and the lack of evidence that … Continue reading Human Trafficking and 2010 Olympics
Community research guidelines
Community Research Guidelines
PTSD Final Report
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Project Premise It was identified during the BCCEC “Confronting Bad Dates: Research, Collaboration and Action to Reduce Violence against Survival Sex Workers project” that: provincial victim services were unavailable to collaborate on strategies like the redesign and distribution of a new Bad Date sheet and a 1-800 line for reporting … Continue reading PTSD Final Report
Collaborative Safety Planning Tool
Collaborative_Safety_Planning_Tool_Sex_Workers_Dec2011RB1 (2) The following safety planning tool is an amalgamation of information from three BCCEC projects that were developed with sex workers in British Columbia to address their concerns about violence: the ―Trade Secrets- Occupational Health and Safety in the Sex Industry‖ (BCCEC, 2011), the ―411‖ resource are for sex workers who have been victims … Continue reading Collaborative Safety Planning Tool
BC Coalition of experiential communities 