✨ We are very excited to launch our new campaign: Vocation, Vocation, Vocation. ✨
Support for sex workers should never depend on them leaving the industry, but sex workers who do choose to leave must be able to access appropriate support to do so.
🧵Here's what we want to do:
Support for sex workers should never depend on them leaving the industry, but sex workers who do choose to leave must be able to access appropriate support to do so.
🧵Here's what we want to do:
We want to hire a vocational support caseworker to provide one-to-one advice on career planning, education, and accessing financial resources for sex workers.
We want to integrate the Universal Credit application tool developed as part of Catalyst Challenge 9 with our existing website to support sex workers in applying for financial assistance.
We want to develop resources with sex workers, for sex workers, offering guidance on applying for jobs, creating CVs and cover letters, accessing training, accessing Universal Credit, and other support to leave sex work if they choose to do so.
We want to support our casework team to continue providing high-quality victim support following harm, helping sex workers to achieve healing and justice.
We recognise the unique barriers faced by sex workers - and those with intersecting marginalisations - in accessing mainstream work, education and/or financial support.
We also want to break these down.
We also want to break these down.
We believe that sex workers should be able to make decisions about their lives and working practices unhindered by both 'what-ifs' and actual incidents of stigma and discrimination inside and outside of sex work.
Support our work to help us support sex workers' work: nationaluglymugs.org/vocation-vocat…
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