Living in Community Society

Published purpose

Through this 30-month project, Living in Community Society will scale its community development model, strengthening the gender-based violence (GBV) sector by addressing how sex workers across British Columbia experience GBV. It will scale deep to impact the root causes of violence, scale up to impact laws and policy, and scale out to reach greater numbers of sex workers and sex-worker serving organizations, prioritizing BIPOC, disabled, im/migrant, and rural and remote women and non-binary sex workers. It will address the gender-based violence that sex workers experience and their needs for safe supports and an end to stigma. To do so, the project will create and strengthen a provincial convening model of key stakeholders, impact provincial laws and policy to address the roots of violence, and track and measure the project’s impacts. Living in Community Society will publish reports and updates via its website and social media regularly to share the promising practice with others so they may replicate it or expand upon it and share information with Women and Gender Equality Canada GBV Knowledge Centre.