Additional Referral Pathway (ARP) is a way for people to access support if they have experiences exploitation known as modern slavery. Modern slavery describes situations where someone controls you or takes away your freedom and ability to make choices about your life, to gain profit or benefit. Modern slavery includes trafficking in persons, debt bondage, deceptive recruitment, forced labour, forced marriage, organ trafficking, servitude sexual servitude and slavery.
How can they help:
- Free and confidential support.
- Understand your rights and options.
- Free legal advice about your experience of modern slavery.
- Help with immediate safety and wellbeing needs.
- If eligible referral to Australian Red Cross for Support for Trafficked People Program ir the Life without Barrier for Forced Marriage Specialist Support Program.
Website Phone: 1800 000 277 or [email protected]
The Pink Cross Foundation offers:
- Outreach to brothels (providing material support such as food)
- Online outreach and support offered through our social media and website
- Events to provide social inclusion opportunities
- Intake and referrals, including referrals to housing, health and rehabilitation services
- Mentoring and peer support
- Intensive case-management
- Awareness raising through public speaking
- Activism including lobbying
- Advocacy
For more information about Pink Cross Foundation and contact details see their website pinkcross.org.au
Project Respect is an intersectional feminist, non-faith-based organisation. We are a specialised support and referral service and peer community for women and gender diverse people with experience in the sex industry, and for women and gender diverse people with experiences of trafficking for sexual exploitation.
| Locations/Addresses | PO BOX 1323, Collingwood, VIC, 3066 |
| Contact Numbers | (03) 9416 3401 |
| Catchment Area of Services | Statewide Service |
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| Group Programs | N/A |
| Client Referrals Process | A service provider looking for a referral pathway, can call us on 0477 001 110, email us at [email protected], or you can complete our Interagency Referral Form here |
| After Hours Support Availability | N/A |
| Agency Brokerage Options | Please contact us or the allocated worker to ascertain available brokerage. |
| Secondary Consultations | A service provider looking for a secondary consultation or referral pathway, you can call us on 0477 001 110, email us at [email protected] or you can complete our Interagency Referral Form here |
| Information Sharing Requests Process | Contact the office to understand how to access and share information. |
RhED adopts a broad definition of sex work that is inclusive of those engaged in the provision of sexual services, sexually explicit entertainment and sexually explicit content creation.
RhED is committed to respecting and reflecting the needs of the sex industry, and actively promoting the rights of sex workers.
RhED is staffed by people who have worked or are working in the sex industry and other professionals.
The RhED volunteer program is made up of current and past sex workers.
RhED resources and presentations are developed in collaboration with sex workers.
RhED is a state-wide program of Better Health Network that provides health education, support, advocacy and case management services for sex workers. RhED also supports the broader sex industry, including auxiliary workers, owners, managers, clients and families of sex workers and provides training, community education and secondary consults to the wider community.
RhED uses a social model of health, using harm minimisation, health promotion, social inclusion, and community participation approaches to promote physical, emotional and social health and well-being for its client groups.
For more information about programs or to get in contact visit the website sexworker.org.au
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, is the national peak body for sex workers and sex worker organisations in unceded Australia. Through their objectives, policies and programs they work to advance sex worker rights through equality and social, legal, political, cultural, health and economic justice for past and present workers in the sex industry. They work to enable sex workers to be self-determining agents, build alliance and choose where and how to live and work.
Scarlet Alliance is a peer organisation, all staff and committee members are past or current sex workers.
Purposes:
- Advance the health of past and present sex workers.
- Promote and protect the human rights of past and present sex workers.
- Promote respect for sex workers and end all forms of discrimination against sex workers.
Program provides person-centred support that is responsive and flexible to individual needs. Support may include:
- Helping to find a safe place to stay.
- Providing financial assistance for essentials.
- Connecting people with health, housing, and community services.
- Referring to legal and migration support.
- Offering emotional and well-being support.
Website Phone: 1800 113 015
Vixen is Victoria’s peer sex worker organisation, proudly run 100% by and for current and former sex workers. Our purpose is to advance the rights, health, safety, and well-being of all Victorian sex workers, ensuring sex worker voices and experiences are at the centre of everything we do.
Vixen is a member of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) and the Victorian member organisation of Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers Association, the national peak body for sex workers and sex worker organisations across unceded Australia.
Visit the website to see the range of great services, information and projects they are involved in.