A 3-hour online training course for professionals offering therapy and counselling, providing information about sex workers' complex counselling needs. It will include interactive elements, though you will have the ability to type or to speak out loud for this participation.
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 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 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. UK (GMT) timezone, with discussions about the law focusing on the UK! After the training, you will also have the option to be added to a directory of those who have completed the training, 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, shortly after purchasing a ticket, 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.