Toni Newman
Executive Director

A Message From Our
Executive Director

St. James Infirmary has approached our 2nd year anniversary at our new location, 730 Polk Street, and our partnership with San Francisco Community Health Center. We are now collaborating with SF Office of Trans Initiatives, Larkin Street Youth Services, Glide, UCSF Ward 86, PRC, Open House, Project Openhand, Shanti, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, SafeHouse, Horizons Foundation and SF LGBT Center. We are thankful for all their support this year for our community.

I am excited for our growth in 2019 and where we are headed in 2020. We will be doing a needs assessment in 2020 to make sure we are providing the services most needed by our community. As the only sex worker clinic in the USA, our goal is to provide the best services possible.

Please consider making a year-end gift to St. James IInfirmary. St. James Infirmary is a peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers of all genders. It is our mission to meet the needs of people engaged in the sex trade through advocacy, direct services, and social justice. Your support is vital so we can continue serving our community.

Please consider forwarding this newsletter to a friend who may not yet know us. As always, thank you so much for your generous support of St. James Infirmary benefiting our participants who struggle every day to survive.

My very best,
Toni Newman,
Executive Director

Holiday Giving

EQUITY FOR SEX WORKERS & TRANSGENDER PEOPLE
Donate today and ensure that sex workers of all genders continue to have access to quality non judgemental care as well as build in our advocacy programs to center those most marginalized in our community and meet the needs of our community.

OUR TRANS HOME SF
Our Trans Home SF is a coalition campaign working to address & raise visibility of trans homelessness & housing instability. Led by St. James Infirmary and Larkin Street Youth Services we need your support.

Board Spotlight

St. James Infirmary welcome Shannon Amitin, JM Jaffe
and Joaquin Remora to the board.

From the Therapist’s Office

Corrie Varga, Mental Health Team Leader

Warmly,
Corrie Varga, Mental Health Team Leader

Outreach

Outreach and HIV teams

Hieeee everybody! It’s me Celestina and I’m back with another Notes from the Naughty Nurse Mobile! So much has been going on!

First-off, I’d like to say that we will be adding another outreach worker/driver. This will allow us to continue expanding our late-night outreach to go out on the streets more nights. We got a new grant from the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women to allow us to partner with Safehouse to support trans and CIS sex workers with housing. We are excited about this and hard at work getting this program set up and beginning to implement this. Thank you so much to James Burch and Toni Newman!

Some very exciting news for me personally is that I finally finished the sex worker safety zine that I’ve been working on! It’s called Red Umbrella Rides and it’s bilingual English/Spanish with several fabulously brilliant contributors of art, poetry, articles and comics all about sex worker safety and community. We are distributing it on the street, to the strip clubs and wherever we can get it to sex workers. We even gave some out in collaboration with Rad Mission Neighbor’s free laundry day recently. We plan to offer it for sale on our website and free to sex workers. So please inquire if you’re interested!

As usual, we continue to do our outreach every Tuesday night in the Mission and Polk St. We love connecting with and supporting our communities of sex workers. The young femme spectrum folks in the Mission and the trans women/girls around former Diva’s are fierce fashionistas and often recognize and remember us as we chat and compliment them on their looks! We love the work we do and continue to work hard to serve our communities.

Thanks for all the ways y’all keep supporting us especially our rockstar volunteers!

Love,
Celestina

SJI Equity Campaign for Sex Workers and Transgender People of Color

We are very excited to announce that we have begun our 2019–2020 fundraising campaign: "St. James Infirmary, in our 20th year, is fighting for the equity of sex workers and trans people of color."

St. James Infirmary believes that we will achieve health equity and anti-criminalization in California by focusing on providing comprehensive support to Sex Workers of Color. St. James Infirmary believes that we cannot fight for the liberation for Sex Workers and Sex Workers of Color without fighting for the liberation of Trans People of Color.

Towards those ends, we are expanding and transforming our services. We have FOUR major changes that we need your help to achieve:

First, St. James Infirmary is bringing its HIV services to Oakland. We have long desired to bring our services to Sex Workers to the East Bay, and we have finally decided that we are going to make a dedicated effort to gather the resources necessary to make it happen, starting with our HIV program.

Second, as the largest employer of Trans Women of Color in the Bay, St. James Infirmary has a responsibility to ensure that the services provided to the Trans community of Color are appropriately run. Towards that end, we are launching a new housing program specifically for the Trans Community. Details to follow!!

Third, St. James Infirmary is expanding its outreach program in the Mission. Thanks to a grant from the City of San Francisco, St. James Infirmary will have increased presence in the Mission on weekend nights, additional resources, and, importantly, a newly-formed emergency housing program for Sex Workers at risk of harm. With your help, we can continue to build out our program and serve as a model for the rest of the country!

Fourth, St. James Infirmary is conducting a needs assessment and launching a leadership development program. We are privileged to be in a place where we can use our resources to amplify the voices of marginalized sex workers in the Bay Area, and look forward to providing those interested with what they tell us they need to bring their work to the next level.

With the above in mind, we are asking St. James Infirmary’s family and supporters to become sustaining donors. As you all have noticed over the past several years, St. James Infirmary has grown into an organization that has the leadership, vision, philosophy, and organizational capacity to make it happen. What we need is the money. The dollars. The dough. The bread. The cheddar. Whatever you want to call it, we need it. And we need you to give it to us.

St. James is on the rise—we are certain that you who have been watching us know this truth as well as we do. What we are asking for now is the resources necessary to push us through this period of growth so we can complete our transition into the organization that everyone knows we can be. We thank you for your patience during our transformation. We thank you for your support. We thank you for being you, because without you, there is no us.

Please support St. James Infirmary by making a monthly donation at http://www.stjamesinfirmary.org.

Our Trans Home SF

Our Trans Home SF is a new-found transitional housing program for age 25 years old and over TGNC community, Trans Home SF program is unique as it is the first of its kind in the nation!

Our team is currently in place and working hard to guarantee that Trans Home SF is a success. If you or anyone you know is interested in being a participant with Trans Home SF, you can email our team at contacts below.

HOUSING NAVIGATORS
Camdyn Carter
[email protected]

Jessy D Santos (Bilingual)
[email protected]

CLINICAL CASE MANAGER
Matthew Paden
[email protected]

Please view our website
at ourtranshomesf.org or
call us at 415-554-8494

Info-Tech

Dennison Williams, IT Manager

Dennison Williams, IT Manager

Volunteer Recruitment

Interested in helping out? Do you have Clinic experience, Healthcare related skills or amazing ideas on ways you want to help serve our Community? Can you commit to 6–10 hours a month (includes shifts and monthly volunteer meeting)? Join our team of dedicated volunteers in providing to the sex worker community.

St. James Infirmary prioritizes people with experience in the sex trades in the volunteer program; We welcome allies to apply, with the understanding that St. James Infirmary is a peer-based clinic.

To join our team and register for a mandatory volunteer orientation submit an online application in english or spanish. If you would like a printable .pdf or word version of our application e-mail our community engagement coordinator at [email protected].

Volunteer Orientations are approximately once a quarter. This means it could take up to 3 months before we follow up with you so, please be patient with us. We do our best to get back to people in a timely manner, but our resources are limited. If you have submitted an application and do not hear from us within 3 months, please let us know.

Researchers and Interns
If you are interested in conducting an interview or research project, or completing a student internship with St. James Infirmary, please e-mail our community engagement coordinator at [email protected].

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