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Advocates who work at local domestic violence or sexual assault programs can help victims and survivors who need emotional support, help with making a plan to stay safe, shelter, accompaniment to court or to the police, and more. On these pages, you can find contact information for these non-profit statewide and local programs.
*DC, MD, and VA ONLY* Amara Legal
URL: https://amaralegal.org/ Amara Legal Center provides free legal services to individuals whose rights have been violated while involved in commercial sex, whether involvement was by coercion, necessity, choice, or otherwise, in the D.C. metropolitan area. Services include orders of protection, public benefits services, advocacy in criminal cases, and other legal services sex workers may need.
*NEW YORK ONLY* Sex Workers Project
Phone: +1-646-602-5617 (SWP prefers phone calls) URL: https://swp.urbanjustice.org/
Email: swp@urbanjustice.com
The Sex Workers Project provides direct legal services and legal education workshops for sex workers, and trainings for service providers and community organizations.
Desiree Alliance
URL: http://desireealliance.org/ Email: director@desireealliance.org
The Desiree Alliance is a national coalition of current and former sex workers working together with supporting networks to constructively advocate for sex workers’ human, health, labor and civil rights. The Desiree Alliance has an annual conference for sex workers and about sex workers’ rights.
Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP-USA)
Hotline: 877-776-2004 (x – 01) URL: https://swopusa.org/
SWOP is a national organization to support sex workers through a community support line, technical assistance, funding, and advocacy. They offer information on how sex workers in different industries can stay safe here.
The Help Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS) Program
Hotline: 800-676-HIPS Phone 2: 202-232-8304
URL: https://www.hips.org/
HIPS helps people engaged in sex work, sex trade, and drug use to live healthy, self-determined, and self-sufficient lives free from stigma, violence, criminalization or oppression. Utilizing a harm reduction model, HIPS’ programs strive to address the impact that HIV/ AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, discrimination, poverty, violence, and drug use have on the lives of individuals engaging in prostitution.
