Professional Disability Awareness Training (PDAT) – ONLINE – Friday 25th July & Friday 1st August 2025

Professional Disability Awareness Training (PDAT) For Sex Workers

This workshop is exclusively for sex workers and aims to increase knowledge, skills & confidence in providing services to clients with a range of disabilities. Some clients (or their support workers and families) feel more secure organising an appointment with a worker who’s had awareness training or previous experience working with clients with disability.  

PLEASE NOTE: To be eligible you must have been providing sex services for a minimum of three (3) months.

Goals

• Progress the concept of professional training being made available to sex workers who wish to gain greater awareness and skills in working with clients who have a range of special needs
• Assist sex workers to challenge myths and prejudices they or their workplace may have regarding clients with disability
• Inform participants of the diverse sexuality of people with disability
• Educate participants on how discrimination may create barriers for people with disability to access the sexual lifestyles of their choice – including accessing sex workers and sex services premises
• Inform on better practice for providing accessible services to people with disability
• Inform on how to arrange services through a third party (personal care attendant, family member or friend of client, etc).

When?

This workshop is being held over two x 3-hour live online training sessions:

Session 1: Friday 25th July 2025, 1pm - 4pm AEST (NSW/VIC/QLD/ACT/TAS) (12.30pm - 3.30pm SA/NT, 11am - 2pm WA)

Session 2: Friday 1st August 2025, 1pm - 4pm AEST (NSW/VIC/QLD/ACT/TAS) (12.30pm - 3.30pm SA/NT, 11am - 2pm WA)

NOTE: Participants are expected to attend both sessions, and must do so to receive a Certificate of Attendance.

Cost
$125.00
This covers the cost of both sessions.  

Limited number of participants
This workshop is limited to a maximum of 12 participants. Registrations will close as soon as the first 12 sex workers register – so don’t delay if you want to attend!

Waiting List
We will be operating a waiting list for these specific workshops in case someone withdraws their registration. So if you do miss out on being in the first 12 people to register you will be placed on our waiting list.  

**Please note: This is an awareness training workshop; with a focus on increasing the awareness of the sexual rights of people with disability and the stigma and discrimination faced by people with disability when accessing sexual services, and providing information on better practice for providing accessible sexual services.

Although PDAT touches on the basics of providing practical hands-on support to clients with disability, it does not cover aspects such as manual lifting, falls procedures, catheter use, and so on. 

We believe hands-on skill sets are best left to those who are certified to teach them - there are many training providers across Australia that run in-person and online courses covering these areas, for example National Disability Services Manual Handling for Disability Support Workers online training.”