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Grand Forks, Interior

Services for women and children who are at risk of/ have experienced violence: temporary safe shelter, counselling and referrals, accompaniment to appointments, support groups for women, community education, outreach and drop in services, drum circle, Homelessness Prevention Program, Sexual Assault Response Team, Interagency Case Assessment Team

Encourages a harm reduction approach; does not provide supplies on-site

Temporary safe shelter and support for adult women and their dependent children. This communal setting offers food, laundry, transportation, and is staffed 24 hours.

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Transportation assistance is part of outreach services

http://www.bwcbc.ca/

Outreach: 250.442.9434 | outreach@bwcbc.ca

Sexual Assault Response Team and Main Office: 250.442.3131, toll free at 1.855.441.3131 | info@bwcbc.ca

Cranbrook, Interior - 209A 16th Ave North

Support for women dealing with a variety of situations including violence in relationships, insecure housing, trauma, food security, clothing, and general emotional support. Provide a safe, confidential, non-judgmental space where women can come and are a point of access to other resources in the community.

Do not offer harm reduction supplies, but work closely with a program called ANKORS which does. Offer free hygiene products and have a free clothing store.

Community Connections Society of Southeast BC operates the shelter in Cranbrook. Cranbrook Women's Centre works closely with the staff there to ensure the clients are supported and have a place to go if they need it.

Cranbrook Women's Centre partners with a walk-in counseling clinic that offers support to clients, and offers women's groups when our budget allows us to. Work closely with the Transition House as well as Second Stage Housing (Haven Gardens). Also work with the Homeless Outreach/Prevention Program, East Kootenay Poverty Law Advocate, and Family Law Advocate.

Free taxi vouchers and access to applications for our community bus pass program. This program offers free bus passes to city residents.

209A 16th Ave N, Cranbrook, BC V1C 5S8

250-426-2912

cbkwrc@ccssebc.com

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver

Provincial umbrella organization for community-based anti-violence organizations. Violence prevention programs, training, research and analysis

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https://endingviolence.org/

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver - 310-1033 Davie St

Outreach, education, and advocacy for male, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people working in the sex industry. One-on-one support, workshops on destigmatizing male sex work, bad date reports, drop-in spaces.

Yes - supplies available for pick-up in Vancouver and Fraser region (condoms, lubricant, safer smoking kits, safer injecting kits, safer snorting kits, naloxone kits, fentanyl test strips). To arrange pick up: register@checkhimout.ca.

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https://checkhimout.ca/male-sex-work-support/hustle/

HUSTLE @ HIM (Greater Vancouver Area): 604-369-9704 | daniel@checkhimout.ca

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver - 1003 Kingsway

Kingsway Community Station is a drop in for female identifying sex workers that operates six days a week (Monday-Saturday) 10PM-6AM. This program offers sex workers a space for community engagement, peer to peer counseling, access to services, safe consumption, a safe space to grab a snack, get ready for work, have a nap, report bad dates, fill out housing applications, referrals, access to donated clothing, and much more!

Yes, safe sex and safe consumption supplies!

No, but can assist in finding shelters.

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kcs@raincityhousing.org

604-428-0834 (landline)

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver - 148 W Hastings St

Drop-in with computers, television, phone, hygiene supplies and clothing, harm reduction supplies (Monday-Thursday 10:30 am - 4:30 pm); one-on-one support, peer outreach and mentorship, gender self-determination support; Occupational Health and Safety workshops, violence prevention support, Wise Women group, public education workshops (Sex Work 101, Sensitivity Training, Outreach Training), research and advocacy. Trans inclusive

Yes, at drop-in

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https://www.pace-society.org/

604-872-7651 | info@pace-society.org

Victoria, Vancouver Island - 1-744 Fairview Road

Drop-in centre/ wellness clinic, counselling, health support and outreach (one-on-one support), night outreach (7 nights a week, delivering harm reduction supplies, food, water, and other health and safety information along the Victoria stroll), houisng and community support, violence prevention and support, bad date reporting, men's group, TN2S Workers Monthly Dinner Group (for 2-spirit, trans, non-binary, and/or intersex sex workers), Indoor Workers Dinner and Education Group (for sex workers in independent and agency based indoor environments), smll business training program, Jannit Rabinovitch Memorial Scholarship, public education. Also partner with HIM's HUSTLE program to provide services to male sex workers in the Greater Victoria Area (including Sidney, Saanich, Westshore and Sooke).

Yes - needles, crack kits

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https://www.safersexwork.ca/

General Contact: 250-388-5325 | admin@peers.bc.ca

Night Outreach: 250-744-0171 | outreach@peers.bc.ca

HUSTLE @ Peers (Greater Victoria Area): 236-638-3340 | jonathan@checkhimout.ca

Prince George, Northern BC - 1046 4th Avenue

Drop-in and support services (Monday-Friday 9 am - 3:30 pm): meals and snacks, shelter for the day, harm reduction materials and information, sex worker safety kits, bathroom and personal hygiene materials, clothing donations, lockers for personal storage, bad date reports, referrals to community services; Wellbriety Meetings; drop-in health clinic; workshops and programs

Yes, at drop-in - naloxone and narcan, overdose response information, sex worker safety kits

Can stay there for the day (couches, blankets, pillows)

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http://princegeorgenewhopesociety.ca/

250-562-8680 | jan_newhope@hotmail.com

Prince George, Northern BC - 193 Quebec St

Women Stopping the Violence (women's counselling), Men's Circle of Truth (advocacy and education), Teen's Program (advocacy for youth age 14-18 who are survivors of sexualized trauma), Kids' Connection (child sexual abuse program), education and training, third party reporting

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https://www.pgsac.org/

250-564-8302

Kamloops, Interior - 433 Tranquille Road

Escort Agency Collaboration, Work Safe Practice and Education, Online Outreach presence, Anonymous access to condoms and lubrication, Linkages/information regarding community resources, Bad Date Reporting, Blood Borne Infections/Health Navigation, HIV/HEPC information, Referrals, Advocacy, Collaboration and Advocacy with Missing Persons and RCMP Sex Trade Co-Coordinator, 1-1 Support, Court Accompaniment, Support for families of sex workers, Support for family issues and child apprehension issues, Access to clothing room and toiletries, Shower and laundry facilities, Internet access, Housing Outreach and Crisis Funding

Yes - supplies, services, and education

Safe Suite: a bachelor suite for sex workers to get away for a few days, staffed 24/7 and is confidential and safe. Supportive housing in Kamloops and Penticton: 6 houses in the two cities, call 250-376-7558 for details.

Two transitional houses in Kamloops, and multiple affordable housing unites also managed by ASK in Kamloops and Merritt.

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https://askwellness.ca/

Main: 250-682-3059

Kamloops office: 250-376-7558

Merritt office: 250-315-0098

Email: t.cozens@askwellness.ca

Fort St. John, Northern BC - We serve all of NEBC but don't currently have a physical space.

We offer community for folx who have a relationship with drugs or alcohol. Our services are not only for people practicing recovery. We have meetings every 2 weeks and other events throughout the year. We help with harm reduction supplies, advocacy for families involved with MCFD, employment services, assistance with ID, housing and other social services as well as sex worker emergency kits and support.

We don't currently have an operating OPS, but have harm reduction supplies that can be picked up at meetings or delivered by our team of peers.

We offer shelter referrals and advocacy.

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Lyric Paddison: 250-794-7043

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver - 325 -1101 Seymour St.

Support and advocacy for newcomer, migrant and immigrant women engaged in indoor sex work (e.g., massage parlours, micro-brothels, condos, apartments)

Yes - English, Mandarin & Cantonese outreach services to Abbotsford, Surrey, White Rock, Tri-Cities, North Vancouver, Vancouver, Burnaby, New West, Richmond

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Transportation assistance is part of outreach services

https://www.swanvancouver.ca/

604 719 6343 (English main office line)

778 865 6343 (English, Mandarin, Cantonese support/outreach line)

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver

24 hr crisis and information line (604-255-6344 in the Lower Mainland, national toll-free line at 1-877-392-7583), hospital accompaniment, police and court accompaniment, counselling, Indigenous counselling, MMIWG2S family counselling

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www.salalsvc.ca

Crisis Line: 604-255-6344

National Toll-free: 1-877-392-7583

Office: 604-255-6228

Kitimat, Northern BC - 350-370 City Centre

Homeless Prevention Program, Women's Counsellor & Sexual Assault Response Team, food share, free store, furniture exchange, hygiene & baby needs, transition house for women and their children, second stage housing for single women, PEACE child and youth counselling, outreach for women

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Dunmore Place Transition House: safe emergency shelter to women, with or without children, who are fleeing abusive relationships, or escaping violence. Staffed 24/7 by women. LGBTQ+. friendly. Call 250-632-6070.

Women's 2nd Stage Housing: housing and supports for women who have left abusive relationships as they make plans for independent living. Call 250-632-8787.

Offers POD-V, a locally administered provincial subsidy for women’s safe travel

https://tamitik.ca/

Phone: 250-632-8787

Email: info@tamitik.ca

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver

Drop-in space for male, trans, non-binary, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse sex workers. Social activities (movies, education, games, etc.) and food provided. Support from case managers to connect participants to health care, housing, and substance use services, etc. The Corner is a partnership between Vancouver Coastal Health and AIDS Vancouver.

Drop-in happens 7 pm to 9 pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Contact for location and more information.

Yes, safer inhalation and intravenous drug use supplies, as well as safer sex supplies. OPS site in the same building Wednesdays & Thursdays.

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Laura laurai@ribboncommunity.org, 604-349-6394 or Richard richard.odonnell@vch.ca.

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver - 1719 Franklin Street

Family programs (support and service delivery), Circles of Understanding (awareness-raising about continued impacts of colonization), Youth programs (providing safe spaces for youth), Women's programs (focusing on safety, security, and crime prevention for Aboriginal women)

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https://vacpc.org/

604-678-3790 | info@vacpc.org

Vancouver, Metro Vancouver

Drop-in centre for women sex workers (trans inclusive) open from 6pm – 12 noon every day; shelter for street-based sex workers; MAP Van (mobile harm reduction and support, every day from 1pm-6pm and every night from 11pm-5am); supportive employment program; Aboriginal health and safety program; Learning Centre; Music Therapy; Health Clinic

Yes - needles and other harm reduction supplies, provided through MAP Van and at drop-in

24/7 temporary emergency shelter for street-based sex workers

Transitions Program: supports women in moving to safer sex work, or to reduce their reliance on sex work, or to eventually exiting altogether

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https://wish-vancouver.net/

Main: 604-669-WISH (9474) | info@wishdropincentre.org

Drop in: 604-681-9244

MAP Van: 604-720-5686

Whitehorse, Yukon - 308 Hanson Street

A women's equality-seeking and awareness group with a mandate to: work for women’s issues with all levels of government, conduct research and follow-up the results with action, and provide a voice for Yukon women.

Currently running the SWAP Project focusing on those who sell or trade sex in the Yukon. Over five years, this project aims to understand the needs and experiences of people who trade sex in the territory, and works to create systemic changes that can increase safety and options for women who trade sex, with an emphasis on stigma-busting and peer-support building.

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https://www.yukonstatusofwomen.org/

Phone: (867) 667-4637 or (867) 334-4634

SWAP Project Managers: heidi.marion@yswc.ca and jess.stone@yswc.ca.