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After training thousands of learners over the past 10 years, Living in Community has developed an online, self-directed program on how to best support sex workers in your work, life, and community.

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ABOUT US

Our Story

Our story starts in 2003, when 67 sex workers had gone missing and/or had been murdered in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

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Our Model

Our model brings together sex workers and folks with various experiences with sex work.

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Training and Education

We offer various workshops to increase knowledge about sex work and help improve services and supports for sex workers.

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Living in Community: Understanding Perspectives on the Sex Industry highlights our unique community development model developed in 2004. We bring together diverse stakeholders to collaboratively improve the health and safety of sex workers while reducing stigma and harm.

This video explores LIC's innovative model and demonstrates how it has made an impact on communities in Vancouver and beyond.

Hand-drawn video produced by flippinpictures.com.

NEWS

Read our Advocacy Toolkit!

Now online! Our advocacy toolkit outlines ways that people from every sector can be part of putting the recommendations from our 2023 conference into action. It includes:

  • an overview of our approach to advocacy
  • the jurisdiction of each level of colonial government in Canada when it comes to sex work (What does each government do? What advocacy opportunities do we have for each government?)
  • 6 key recommendations to get started as part of the movement for sex workers' rights
  • the recommendations from our 2023 conference, organized by sector We hope this toolkit will make it easy for you, no matter what area you work in, to know how you can take action for sex workers' rights. Read our advocacy toolkit on our website now

You can read and download the advocacy toolkit here.

Read our 2023 Conference Report!

It’s here! After months of hard work to collect, analyze, summarize, and edit what was shared by all 167 attendees and speakers at our October 2023 conference, our Conference Report is now published.

This report captures summarizes the discussions held throughout the conference: the three insightful keynote topics, the nine diverse breakout sessions, and the full-group action planning session held at the end of the second day. It highlights the recommendations that speakers and attendees shared throughout the two days. It also includes some of LIC’s lessons learned and feedback from attendees about what they took away from this conference.

You can read and download the report here.

Learn more about the BC Bad Date and Aggressor Reporting (BC BDAR) Project

Have questions about the BC BDAR Project? Learn more in our FAQ document, put together from the five Working Group organizations guiding this project: PACE Society, Peers Victoria, SWAN Vancouver, WISH Drop-In Centre Society, and Living in Community.

Read the FAQs here, and check out the project website here.

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