GAP & MAP Project

Introduction to Service

GAP & MAP supports individuals who have been exposed to exploitation and/or those involved in survival sex or sex work.

We provide provides outreach and in reach support to engage with people on a one to one basis providing the following specialist programmes of care designed in partnership with NTW Mental Health Trust.

How we define our work:

• Sexual exploitation: This is a form of sexual abuse where an individual or group takes advantage of an imbalance of power to coerce, manipulate or deceive an individual into sexual activity, physically and/or online.
• Survival Sex: There are forms of selling/exchanging sex or sexual content that are often rooted in structural failings that are often constrained by social and/or economic vulnerabilities. In cases such as these, sexual activity is often exchanged for a survival need such as housing, food, tobacco, protection, alcohol, or drugs.
• Sex work: This is a broad term for activities including but not limited to, selling sex, brothel work, street-based sex work, webcamming and stripping. There are forms of sex work that are consensual, where the person selling sex or sexual content chooses to do so as a means of income.

Key Information

We offer:

• Intensive 1-to-1 support
• Weekly women’s drop-ins
• Prison in-reach and community integration
• Supporting access and engagement with services to meet immediate needs
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills groups and Trauma Focused programmes
• Community Integration: education, training and employment including opportunities for volunteering
• A specialist ISVA
• Explore exit routes out of sex work if desired.