A 3-hour online training course for professionals providing therapy and counselling, providing information about sex workers' complex counselling needs.

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 make your practice accessible to sex workers, including how to build trust with the community.Resources which can be offered to sex worker service users.Advertising your practice 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 clients.

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.

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