Episode 11: July 1, 2020
Demand (Part 2) – Shifting Focus, Holding Buyers Accountable
with special guest Alisa Bernard

We invite our special guest to share with us from Seattle, WA on why it is necessary to shift our focus to demand and ways we can hold individuals who buy sex accountable for the sexual exploitation of others.

Alisa Bernard is the Director of Education and Partnerships at the Organization for Prostitution Survivors. She is known for her expertise on multi-prong and asymmetric policy model responses to commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) and the impact these approaches have as they are implemented within American social structures. She is an independent consultant, educator, and presenter having consulted to organizations and agencies across the US, including: Demand Abolition, World Without Exploitation and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. She is a founding member of King County’s Ending Exploitation Collaborative and sits on numerous task forces and public and private advisory boards. Alisa uses her lived experiences of CSE, teen homelessness, domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse as a lens to inform her work and approach.

Organization for Prostitution Survivors (OPS) focuses on providing services that are holistic, individualized and responsive to the self-identified needs of each participant. Survivors are experts in their own lives and healing – OPS uses a combination of support modalities from harm reduction to exit services, empowering survivors to determine their individual needs on their journey. They provide both in-house services as well as referrals to partners to provide a complete continuum of care.

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