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ABITS Report 2015 Annual report prepared by the department of feminisms and LGTBI on the different services and programmes of the agency for an integrated approach to sex workers (ABITS) BCN ABITS Report 2015 Area for Citizen's Rights, Participation and Transparency Department for Feminisms and LGTBI (Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals, Bisexuals and Intersexuals) Directorate of Feminisms and LGTBI SUMMARY INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................5 1. ATTENTION TO FEMALE PROSTITUTES WORKING ON PUBLIC STREETS..............................................................................................6 1.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE SOCIAL-EDUCATIONAL ATTENTION SERVICE (SAS) .....6 1.1.1 SAS 2015 main actuations and indicators .............................................................7 1.2 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF DIFFERENT WORK AREAS......................................8 1.2.1 SAS proximity attention on public streets...............................................................8 1.2.2 Attention in the office and individualised work plans, main demands ..................12 1.2. 3 Psychological assistance ....................................................................................16 1.2.4 SAS Legal counsel assistance.............................................................................18 1.2.5 Economic aid offered by SAS ..............................................................................20 1.2.6 Networking ...........................................................................................................20 1.3. OTHER SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES TO WOMEN IN COORDINATION WITH ENTITIES ...............................................................................................................22 1.3.1 Intervention and attention to women in intermediate emergency situations and social inclusion.......................................................................................................22 1.3.2. Socio-healthcare pills for women sex working on public streets.........................24 2. ASSISTANCE TO FEMALE PROSTITUTES IN CLOSED SPACES (PREMISES, CLUBS AND APARTMENTS) ...........................................................25 2.1. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMMES FOR ENTERING INTO CLOSED SPACES......................................................................27 2.1.1 Attention to women working in closed spaces in the l'Eixample district to offer integrated social attention (RED CROSS) ........................................................27 2.1.2. Attention to sex workers in closed spaces of the Les Corts and Sants-Montjuic districts to offer integrated social attention (LLOC DE LA DONA)....................................................................................................33 2.1.3. Attention to women working in closed spaces in the city to help in the situations from a Human Rights stance (GENERA)............................................38 3. SERVICES AND RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT ................................................................................42 3.1 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF DIFFERENT SERVICES AND RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION AND PROMOTION OF EMPLOYABILITY.........................................45 3.1.1 DIR: Comprehensive project for employment placement of female sex workers ...................................................................................................45 2 Area for Citizen's Rights, Participation and Transparency Department for Feminisms and LGTBI (Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals, Bisexuals and Intersexuals) Directorate of Feminisms and LGTBI Apprenticeships in companies ......................................................................................50 3.1.2 ITI: Personal assessment itinerary for the professionalisation of female sex workers ...................................................................................................51 3.1.3. ACCIÓ: Comprehensive intervention programme with transsexual persons linked to prostitution in Barcelona city...........................................................................55 3.1.4. Special accompaniment programme for incorporation into the employment market and social fabric of female sex workers searching for alternative employment............................................................................................58 3.1.5 Social-employment training project......................................................................61 3.1.6 DONA KOLORS Project for social entrepreneurship...........................................63 3.1.7 ROSAS CRAFTS sewing training project ............................................................65 3.1.8 Project for mobile urban furniture for the Plaça de les Glòries.............................66 3.1.9 Dona Impuls project for Social-employment placement......................................67 4. SERVICES AIMED AT VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING OF HUMAN BEINGS FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ..............................................................................70 4.1 APPROACH BY THE SOCIAL-EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (SAS) IN THE CASES OF WOMEN VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING OF HUMAN BEINGS FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION........................................................................................70 Detection of possible VTHB-FES minors ......................................................................72 4.2 COMPREHENSIVE ATTENTION FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING OF HUMAN BEINGS FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.....................................................73 4.2.1 Project definition...................................................................................................73 4.2.2 Emergency stage.....................................................................................................74 4.2.3 Autonomy stage.......................................................................................................75 4.3. RAI: RECOVERY, EMPOWERMENT AND SOCIAL-EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT OF WOMEN WHO WERE VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING OF HUMAN BEINGS FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION........................................................................................77 4.4. LEGAL REPRESENTATION SERVICE FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING OF HUMAN BEINGS FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.....................................................81 4.5. OTHER SHELTERING SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING OF HUMAN BEINGS FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION.....................................................82 3 Area for Citizen's Rights, Participation and Transparency Department for Feminisms and LGTBI (Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals, Bisexuals and Intersexuals) Directorate of Feminisms and LGTBI 5. ABITS NETWORKING AND COLLABORATION ...............................................82 ABITS Agency technical table ..........................................................................................82 Networking with the entities intervening in closed spaces................................................83 Coordination with police forces.........................................................................................84 Territorial coordination......................................................................................................84 Collaboration with the sexual and reproduction health services.......................................85 Coordination with other institutions and municipal services .............................................85 Inter-institutional round table against trafficking of human beings....................................85 Sensitisation and dissemination .......................................................................................86 6. 2015 BUDGET .....................................................................................................87 4 Area for Citizen's Rights, Participation and Transparency Department for Feminisms and LGTBI (Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals, Bisexuals and Intersexuals) Directorate of Feminisms and LGTBI INTRODUCTION This report includes the information and data from the different projects of the ABITS Agency from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2015. The ABITS Agency is a municipal service attached to the Directorate of Feminisms and LGTBI of the Area for Citizen's Rights, Participation and Transparency of the Department for Feminisms and LGTBI. The ABITS Agency has been developing a specific project involving the analysis and diagnosis for direct intervention and coordination since 2006, which represents an accumulated experience of nearly 10 years in the handling of sex workers in Barcelona city. The Agency offers direct assistance to sex workers, designs and implements new projects and programmes, guides preparation of public policy and carries out studies and research into different relevant aspects, as well as coordinating and maintaining contact with agents around the world, and thanks to this it enjoys a comprehensive viewpoint. Its two main objectives are: 1. Completely, globally and in a coordinated way, attend to the transsexual and female prostitutes in Barcelona city and mainly those who are in a situation of special vulnerability. 2. Fight against trafficking of human beings for sexual exploitation. The ABITS Agency acts on 6 strategic lines of intervention: 1. Knowledge of the situation 2. Attention to female prostitutes working on public streets 3. Attention to female prostitutes working in closed spaces (premises, clubs and apartments) 4. Design and implementation of programmes for social-employment education
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