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AIM Healthcare (LA, CA)
Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
Our goal is to provide health care for the body, mind, emotion, and spirit for sex workers and people who work in the Adult Entertainment Industry. We provide HIV/STD testing, treatment, counseling, and support-group programs.

Web site * Porn 101 * STD Guide * What to test before working in Adult Film


BETSY Project (Lynn, MA)
Building Empowerment Through Sex-working Youth
BETSY is a women's group every week for sex workers and active-IDUs (female, bio/trans, all ages welcome). We run also run a Bad Date Sheet.
A program of CAB Health & Recovery
The BETSY Project * Overdose Prevention * Safer Sex Work * en Spanish


CAL-PEP (Oakland, CA)
California Prevention & Education Project
Established in 1985, our original focus was HIV/STD prevention and education for prostitutes and their partners. Since then, the scope has expanded to IDUs, crack users, teens, the homeless, and incarcerated populations.
Web site
* CAL-PEP Brochure

Different Aves (Washington, DC)
We provide services to people ages 12-30 who are homeless or have insecure housing. We work with transgendered, gay, lesbian or bisexual youth or parents of youth who engage in street survival strategies, including sex for favors.
Web site
* Research: Condoms *
Dancers * Police * Trans Rights * en Spanish

Herizen (Bronx, NY)
Herizen is an 8-month training and internship peer program for female and female-identified transgenders. The STREET Project reaches sex workers from the van: late-nite outreach + syringe exchange. A program of CitiWide Harm Reduction
Web page  *  Herizen Brochure  *  Herizen Peer Program & STREET Project


HIPS (Washington, DC)
Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive
Using harm reduction, our programs address the impact HIV/AIDS, STIs, discrimination, poverty, violence & drug use have on transgendered, male & female sex workers in Washington, DC.
Web site
* HR Guidelines for Service Providers * Pamphlet for Program Participants


Ladies Night
(SF, CA)

Ladies Night is held weekly in the Mission District. We are a collaboration of three agencies and offer a hot meal, hygiene supplies, syringe exchange, massage, clothing, case management, bathrooms to use and a medical clinic.
About Ladies Night * WCC * HYA * Mission Neighborhood Resource Center

PBDL (Portland, OR)
Portland Bad Date Line
A bad date is a violent/abusive customer in the sex industry. The PBDL shares descriptions of these harmful people and our hope is to reduce violence, abuse, rape, unwanted pregnancy and the spread of hepatitis, STDs and HIV.
My Space page
  *  PBDL Mission + History  *  Blank Report Form


Power Inside (Baltimore, MD)
We are committed to building self-sufficiency, improving quality of life and preventing incarceration among women and families in Baltimore through research, education, advocacy, outreach and a women's only drop-in.

Web site
  *  About our Program  *  Research  *  Drop-in Hours + Services


Project SAFE (Philadelphia, PA)
A
n all-volunteer program advocating for the health and safety of women in Philadelphia's sex industry. Outreach and delivery (women only), we provide safer sex and harm reduction supplies and a Bad Date Alert to warn about violent clients. Web site  *  Brochure  *  How to Stay SAFE  *  Bad Date Alert


PUMP-Peers Using More Prevention (Greater Boston Area, MA)
We are a fun group of harm reduction educators and HIV counselors from the gay, bi and trans men's communities. PUMP provide's outreach, a group for HIV+ men, and Project Tuned-Up.
A program of Cambridge Cares About AIDS
Web site
  *  Project Tuned-Up  *  Q'nA: HIV  *  Q'nA: Drug Use


$pread Magazine (USA)
$pread is an independent magazine by and for sex workers and those who support our rights. Ask us how to order for your outreach program or to have at the drop-in.
Web site
  *  Distribute to Sex Workers


St. James Infirmary (SF, CA)
Our mission is to provide non-judgmental & compassionate services at our Occupational Health & Safety Clinic for female, transgendered, and male sex workers.
Web site
  *  Needle Exchange  *  Health & Safety Handbook  *  Research


SWOC (Portland, OR)
Sex Worker Outreach Coalition
We are a coalition of social service providers with a mission to promote the basic human rights and personal safety for all individuals working in the sex industry.
Web site
  *  Video: Life and Sex Work in Portland
  *  My Space page

SWOP East (Chapel Hill , NC) provides consultation, outreach education, specialized training and media presentations to a variety of audiences to enhance their knowledge of sex workers, sex work and sex worker human rights. We also operate Pledging Action, a project that collects condom donations in the US and mails them to international organizations who provide direct services to sex workers.

Web siteAbout Pledging Action

SWOP-USA 
Sex Workers Outreach Project
A national social justice network dedicated to the human rights of sex workers with a focus on ending violence and stigma. Sex workers can call our 24/7 hotline if in jail or for general support. Web site * About the Hotline


TransCEND (Cambridge, MA)
Transgender Care and Education Needs Diversity
We are for and by transgender people and discuss how all forms of discrimination impact HIV prevention; a p
lace without judgments or pressure. A program of Cambridge Cares About AIDS  Web page * En Spanish


YWEP (Chicago, IL)
Young Women's Empowerment Project
We are a youth leadership organization grounded in harm reduction and social justice organizing by and for girls and young women (ages 12-23) impacted by the sex trade and street economies.

Web site
* Trainings * Factsheet from Youth * YWEP_FAQ * Tips for Providers





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