Regional and National Collaborations

  • Decriminalize Vermont is dedicated to policy change focused on reducing the harms and injustices embedded in Vermont’s current drug laws.

  • Safe Sex Work VT is a group of individuals and organizations deeply concerned about the health and safety of not only sex workers, but all Vermonters.

  • The Vermont HIV Community Advisory Group (CAG) works with the Vermont Department of Health (VDH) to assist in meeting the integrated care and prevention needs of Vermonters living with HIV and those at higher risk for becoming infected.

  • Chittenden County Homeless Alliance is a partnership of dozens of different people, organizations, and government entities working together to make homelessness rare and brief.  We serve the 17 communities in Chittenden County, Vermont, USA. We engage in strategic planning, funding distribution, and coordinated entry. goes here

  • Survivors Uplift is a survivor-led action group dedicated to advocacy and awareness about the impact violence has on Vermont. Participants will have training and support to share their story and create change. There will be regular opportunity for members to engage in community outreach, public speaking, and legislative advocacy..

  • SafeSpace (Anti-Violence Program) uses direct service advocacy, education, and community support, to provide comprehensive services to support LGBTQ+ survivors of hate, bias, harassment, discrimination, abuse, intimate partner violence, stalking, trafficking, sexual assault, and other systemic and community harms.

  • Global Network of Sex Work Projects amplifies the voices of sex worker-led organisations advocating for rights-based services, freedom from abuse and discrimination, freedom from punitive laws, policies and practices, and self-determination for sex workers. NSWP publishes a wide range of resources, including Briefing Papers and Policy Briefs, with accompanying Community Guides, Global and Regional Reports, Smart Guides, Statements, the Research for Sex Work journal and Case Studies. NSWP’s Regional Correspondents provide sex work-related News from across five NSWP regions.

  • Housing and Homelessness Alliance of Vermont (HHAV) is a merger of Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness and Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition. Since 1985, the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition (VAHC), has been committed to ensuring all Vermonters have decent, safe and affordable housing. This coalition of the state's non-profit affordable housing developers, community land trusts, housing and homeless advocacy groups and service providers, public housing authorities, regional planners, economic service providers, funders, state agencies, individuals, and others has been advocating for affordable housing interests and the interests of low-income Vermonters at the state and federal levels.

  • The Woodhull Freedom Foundation collaborates with advocates for sex worker’s rights to create a virtual education space. Many of our educational tools and presentations can be found here at the Spokes Hub