Project Respect is a specialist support and referral service for women and gender diverse people with experience in the sex industry, and for women and gender diverse people with experiences of sexual exploitation, including trafficking. We have worked with our community since 1998, providing trauma informed, goal led and person-centred case coordination, community engagement activities including brothel outreach and community connection events, research, and capacity building training to support sector and community organisations’ ability to effectively provide support to women in the sex industry without stigma or discrimination. Project Respect’s primary purposes are to: • Provide support to women and gender diverse people with experience in the sex industry to achieve self-directed goals, including equitable access to services; • Provide support to women and gender diverse people who have experienced trafficking for sexual exploitation, whether current, historic, international or domestic; • Advocate for structural change to end sexual exploitation. We provide a platform to elevate and amplify the voices of, while also being informed and guided by, those with past and present lived experience - including through our Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG).
