Resourcing health & education (RhED) provides services to the sex industry in Victoria. In collaboration with relevant programs and agencies, it provides site-based and outreach services.
RhED defines sex work broadly to include those involved in the provision of sexual services, sexually explicit entertainment, as well as the creation of sexually explicit content.
In addition to promoting sex workers’ rights, RhED is committed to respecting and embodying the needs of the sex industry.
Every interaction you have with RhED, whether over the phone, in person, or through our outreach and netreach services, is confidential.
About us
People who have worked or are currently working in the sex industry make up RhED’s staff, and the program volunteers are current and past sex workers.
Sex workers collaborate on the development of all RhED resources and presentations.
As a program of BHN, RhED promotes emotional, social and physical wellbeing for its client groups using a social model of health, harm minimisation, health promotion, social inclusion, and community participation approaches.
Our Values
- Sex work is valid work
- Human rights are sex workers’ rights
- Bringing sex workers’ voices to the forefront and working alongside them
- Decriminalisation promotes sex workers’ health, safety, and human rights
Our Mission
To assist sex workers and the wider sex industry with holistic and inclusive services, provide programs and resources to Victorian-based sex workers, provide sex-work-centered education to the wider community, and spread relevant and current information throughout the greater sex industry.
Our Objectives
- Embody the sex worker community’s needs through meaningful consultations and responsiveness to feedback
- Improve the health, wellbeing and rights of Victorian sex workers through health promotion, educational programs, one-on-one support sessions with sex workers, outreach, case management, career development, and advocacy work with sex workers, allies, other sex industry staff, external services, and the international and national sex worker community.
- Reduce discrimination and stigma in the community through training and education and by advocating for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Victoria.
- Support the self-determination of sex workers by involving them in decision-making and meaningful participation at all levels.
- Create peer-led spaces where sex workers can connect, talk, develop ideas, debrief, organise, and advocate together.
- Promote career development for sex workers, based on the knowledge that sex work is work, that sex workers are experts in their own lives, and to dismantle obstacles created by stigma to personal and professional development.
You can find more information on RhED programs and resources for sex workers at sexworker.org.au.