In this section is a list of organizations that support sex workers in a variety of ways across Canada.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Sex Professionals of Canada : advocacy, information resource, social events for sex workers, bad date list
- Feminists Advocating for Rights and Equality for Sex Workers : advocacy, information resource, special events
BRITISH COLUMBIA
- PACE Society : sex worker-led, support services (counseling and advocacy) and workshops for sex workers, public education
- West Coast Cooperative of Sex Industry Professionals : co-op formed by sex workers
- WISH Drop-in Centre Society : support services (food,clothes, health care, counseling), literacy program, research, special events, outreach to street sex workers
- PEERS Victoria Resource Society: outreach to street sex workers, support services (health care), job training, advocacy and public education
- BC Coalition of Experiential Communities: sex-worker led, advocacy, events and workshops, research
ALBERTA
- Shift Calgary : counseling, referrals, advocacy, public education, bad date sheet
- Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) : focus on exploitative prostitution, counseling, court diversion program, advocacy for victims, “john school”
- Crossroads : helps women exit prostitution, outreach to street sex workers, referrals, housing for those exiting prostitution, advocacy
SASKATCHEWAN
- Street Workers Advocacy Project: street sex worker outreach, STI clinic, counseling, advocacy, education and job training
ONTARIO
- Maggies : sex-workers led, space and programs for sex workers to connect and share information, public education and advocacy, Aboriginal Sex Work Education and Outreach program
- Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau Work, Educate and Resist (POWER) : sex-worker led, advocacy and public education, special events
- Sex Workers Action Group Kingston: sex-worker led, health care and information, counselling and referrals, bad date list, harm reduction materials, advocacy and public education
QUEBEC
- Chez Stella : drop-in centre, health and legal clinics, information resource for sex workers, public education and advocacy
- La Maison de Marthe : helps women escape sex work,counseling and support, special events
- Concertation des luttes contre l’exploitation sexuelle (CLES) : for the abolition of sex work,advocacy, public education, information resource
- Project Intervention Prostitution Quebec : A group that works with prostitutes, especially child prostitutes. Annual reports should have good data.
NOVA SCOTIA
- Stepping Stone : outreach to street sex workers, “one-on- one peer counseling; workshops on health and legal issues; recreational and personal growth activities; and computer access and educational opportunities”