Open doors

Project workers:

• Amanda Burdfield

• Kerrie Prowting

• Francesca Prior

• Louise Stiles

The project is funded by:

• Bedford House (a mental health day centre)

• City Limits Employment

• The European Social Fund

• 3D-Crime Concern (a national crime prevention charity aiming to find solutions for crime and anti-social behaviour).

Crime Concern works with young people, the community and other agencies to reduce crime.

The Southampton 3D project works with girls and women who work in the sex trade.

100% of women using the 3D project use both heroin and crack cocaine. 22% of these women are now drug free and have left prostitution.

The project started in April 2005 and will end in March 2008.

We will work with 330 people in total 10% of which can be male. We are also able to help women with any disability or disadvantage.

3D's main aim is to help sex workers in Southampton. 3D will also help the people who live with these women to find work and/or training. This will help them, not to rely on the women's money.

Once 3D and the women feel they are ready to look for other work they are referred to City Limits Employment.

We can help you if you meet our criteria. You can be referred to us from:

1. Any outside agency

2. By a self referral using the main contact details for City Limits Employment

Open Doors Criteria

• Single parents or those with care responsibilities

• People where English is not their first language

• People with literacy or innumeracy problems

• People who have lost their jobs due to large scale redundancies

• Ex-offenders

• Homeless

• People who have been out of work for more than 2 years

• Woman in under represented professions

• People with no up-to-date qualifications

• People with no work experience since leaving school

• Refugees

• Drug and alcohol mis-users

• 13-17 year olds in danger of being expelled from school

• People with any form of disability