Signposting & Other Useful Organisations
Contraceptive Services
St Peters Health Centre, Leicester
Confidential Safer Sex Advice, Counselling & Testing
0116 295 1212
Choices
Young People’s sexual health service: 0116 289 8969
Sexwise
Free confidential advice & help for under 19’s from experienced advisors: 0800 28 29 30
Leicester Royal Infirmary Genito-urinary medicine (GUM)
Clinic offers free, friendly confidential service, a check for all sexually transmitted infections, HIV testing.
0116 258 5208
Safer Sex Project
The Community Safer Sex Project supports agencies that work with young people, to provide on-site sexual health information and services in a wide range of community settings. The project seeks to promote safer sex awareness and the avoidance of unplanned teenage pregnancy. The project also provides training, resources and professional support to workers, and by forging close links with other sexual health providers.
Tel: 0116 229 4341 or 229 4393,
Email: safersexproject@leicester.gov.uk
Trade Sexual Health Project
Trade is a free and confidential service offering HIV and sexual health advice and information to anyone who identifies as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or a man who has sex with men.
Phone 0116 254 1747, www.tradesexualhealth.com
The New Futures Project
Project that assist and support women and girls involved or exploited through prostitution. Enabling women to work in healthier and safer condition. Offering confidential support and advice in sexual health, childcare, housing, welfare rights and legal advice etc. Offers a drop-in facility and outreach services to saunas and street working women. Working with under 18’s in preventative solution focused positive life choices.
Also provide more detailed training on prostitution and trafficking.
Tel.: 0116 251 0803, Fax: 0116 251 4800
Email: gordon@new-futures.org.uk
Leicester Rape Crisis
Provides support for all women over the age of 16 who have been affected in any way by rape or sexual assault. Covers Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Project run for women by women.
Tel Helpline 0116 255 8852
National Rape Crisis website provides lots of information. www.rapecrisis.org.uk
DVIRP (Domestic Violence Integrated Response Project)
A local project to provide support and advice for anyone affected by domestic violence or abuse. They also have a project called Cracking Conflict – Alternatives to Violence (CC-AV) which includes sessions for school children.
Tel 0116 255 0004, www.dvirp.co.uk
National Organisations
NAZ Project, London: NPL is the oldest and most broadly based BME charity in London addressing the sexual health and HIV/AIDS needs of its communities. Currently, it provides sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention and support services to South Asians (including Bangladeshis, Indians, and Pakistanis), Muslims (including Middle Easterners and Africans), Horn of Africans (Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Somalis), Portuguese speakers (including Angolans, Brazilians, Mozambicans, and Portuguese), and Spanish speakers (mainly Latin American). NAZ provides information in a range of languages and can also provide training.
Phone 020 8741 1879
www.naz.org.uk
African AIDS Helpline 0800 096 7500
All calls are free and confidential and are available in English, Shona, French, Swahili and Luganda
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Sexual Exploitation, trafficking and prostitution
Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre
Government based organisation with on-line exploitation as focus area. They provide detailed training for teachers, professionals, carers and parents. Also for children and young people to be able to report abuse on-line.
UK Human Trafficking Centre in Sheffield (multi agency organisation including police)
UKHTC was set up with three, key objectives:
• To prevent human trafficking by building knowledge and understanding of the harm it causes and to use that knowledge and understanding to direct and prioritise the UK law enforcement response.
• To improve and co-ordinate the law enforcement response to human trafficking by raising awareness of the key issues and developing and delivering relevant training
• To develop and promote a victim centred, human rights based approach to dealing with trafficking victims, working together with other agencies, stakeholder organisations and NGOs.
www.ukhtc.org
Barnados
Barnardo’s runs 29 sexual exploitation projects that offer a safe, confidential environment where young people can go for help, advice and support. Our project workers actively seek out the young people, offering them someone to talk to and the long-term support they need if they want to change their way of life. The projects also work extremely closely with the police to bring about the prosecution of the perpetrators of sexual exploitation. Our research suggests that what we do to help young people who are sexually exploited does work.
We also campaign to raise awareness of the issues and our efforts have influenced the government to change law and policy throughout the UK. This includes the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which was the first major overhaul of sexual offences legislation for more than a century.
www.barnados.org.uk
