Deadline: 10 March 2019
SWOP USA with the help of the Comer Family Foundation, is seeking applications to offer mini-grants again in 2019.
In 2018, SWOP USA launched their harm reduction mini-grants that help supply sex worker outreach programs with supplies and information that reduce adverse consequences of substance use including sterile syringes.
The funding must be used to support projects and activities that include providing sterile injection equipment to people in the sex trade who use drugs.
Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA is a national social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of people involved in the sex trade and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy.
Principles Harm Reduction Applied to Sex Work
- Views trading sex for money and resources and neither inherently harmful or degrading, or inherently stabilizing or empowering.
- Focuses on who people are rather than what they do, and sees people as whole people.
- Recognizes the myriad of reasons why people engage in the sex trade and seeks to help people meet goals as defined for themselves in non-judgmental and compassionate manners and atmospheres.
- Recognizes the potential infectious disease and physical safety consequences associated with sex work, and seeks to help people mitigate these factors.
- Seeks to provide holistic support rather than isolated interventions.
- Highlights the impact that the criminal justice response to sex work has on people in the sex trade, and seeks to eliminate sociopolitical barriers to care, safety, and general wellbeing. Understand stigma and its byproducts to be at the root of harm experienced by individuals involved in the sex trade, and that intersecting oppressions compound the harm.
- Believes that incorporating a diverse range of sex workers into public health policies and discussions can be a gateway into community health. Understand that one individual’s experience does not equal that of all individuals in the sex trade.
Criteria
This funding is for any group, agency, or effort that is sex worker led and informed, provides direct services to sex workers who use drugs, and abides by the practices and principles of sex work harm reduction.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit http://swopusa.org/2019/02/12/swop-syringe-access-mini-grant-application-is-open/