Ongoing Project Aims

• support the professional development of sex worker peer educators
• ensure the continued recognition of peer educator skills
• ensure the continued assessement opportunities of new assessors

The Initial Project Aims

• The identification of key areas of member organisations work and the appropriate skills level and standards of sex worker education and staff.
• Development of customised national competency standards and assessment and training resources for educators of sex workers.
• The adaptation and development of assessment and training resources for training and delivery of sex worker educators

The initial project tasks included:

• Establishment of a national advisory group
• Update members
• Consultation process with educators to adapt national community work competency standards and training and assessment resources
• Establish a partnership with a Registered Training Organisation (RTO)
• Training of a minimum of 10 sex worker educators as nationally recognised workplace based assessors and trainers by RTO
• Workplace assessment of training and educators
• Issuing of qualifications to educators
• Development of an Assessor Guide Applicants Handbook and Assessment Tools
• Sustainability Strategy
• Evaluation of project