Peers Victoria Resources Society

Website: https://www.safersexwork.ca/
Phone: 250-388-5325 Ext. 2
Night Outreach Phone: 250-744-0171
Harm Reduction Phone: 250-217-0410
Address: 744 Fairview Rd #1, Victoria, BC V9A 5T9

Peers Victoria Resources Society provides services to people currently and formerly in the sex industry of all genders.  The Peers Victoria Resource Centre is located in Esquimalt BC, which is the territory of the Lekwungen speaking people, now known as the Esquimalt and Songhees nations.  Peers Victoria provides a range of supports, both at the centre, and on an outreach basis, including housing, health care access, harm reduction, violence prevention and response and food security supports as well as a range of social groups.  The values of the organization include social justice, being led by experience, tailoring supports to the person, and employing a harm reduction perspective. Peers Victoria supports decriminalization of the sex industry and rights of people in sex work.  The clinical counselling program at Peers Victoria is a free service focused on individual and group based therapies.  Counsellors have lived and academic expertise in sex work, mental health, substance use and trauma.  The organization is supported by a Coastal Elder who shares cultural knowledge and healing, focusing on the needs of Indigenous members of the organization.