Prostitute Outreach Workers (Pow)

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Daniela Scotece

Development Manager

Nottingham

http://www.pow-advice.co.uk

Mission

POW promotes health and dignity through empowerment, support, and education. POW's core aims are to promote good health, relieve financial hardship, advance the education of its clients, and help to provide a route out of prostitution for those who wish to make a clean break.

Category

Poverty Alleviation

Additional Information

POW has been supporting individuals from Nottingham’s prostitute community since 1990. Our clients are vulnerable and have complex support needs relating to issues surrounding prostitution, including class A drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness and mental health issues. POW provides a range of support and advice services, including sexual health and drug clinics, a drop-in centre with access to basic provisions such as food, clothing and washing facilities, and referrals to re-engage clients with mainstream services. We also provide an assertive outreach service to make contact with particularly vulnerable and hard-to-reach clients at crack houses, saunas, working flats, and on the street. During these visits outreach workers issue self-defense tips, condoms, and rape alarms, facilitate satellite sexual health clinics at saunas, disseminate information to clients about known sexual offenders (as part of the nationally-recognised ‘Dodgy Punter’ scheme piloted by POW), and provide support to women who have been physically or sexually assaulted while working. The financial instability in the voluntary sector has resulted in the ending of various funding streams and consequently POW has been drawing from its reserves account to ensure the core running costs of the project are met. In order to ensure that our funding continues to go towards our vital frontline services, we are trying to reduce costs elsewhere. We are currently producing our annual report for mid-March and are seeking graphic design/marketing assistance. We are also seeking help with the re-design of our website. Registered Charity No. 1129979

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Posted on May 21, 2014

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