Project Respect

Project Respect is a specialist support 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 provide case coordination, community engagement activities including community connection events and brothel outreach, sexual violence counselling, engage in research, and provide secondary consultation and capacity building training to support sector and community organizations’ ability to effectively provide support to people in the sex industry without stigma or discrimination.

We have been a member of the National Roundtable on Human Trafficking and Slavery since its inception in 2008, and we are accredited to QIC Health & Community Services Standards and are Rainbow Tick accredited.

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).

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