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Pro-tukipiste Helsinki
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Name of association/service provider

Pro-tukipiste Helsinki

Address

Vilhonkatu 4 B 20, Helsinki
00100, Finland
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Telephone

+358 9 2512 730

Fax

+358 9 2512 7388

Web site

www.pro-tukipiste.fi

Hot Line

+358 9 2512 730

Local Hot Line

AIDS
Drugs
Trafficking
Violence

National Hot Line

AIDS
Drugs
Trafficking
Violence

Working days and hours

Morning Afternoon Night
From To From To From To
monday 11:00 12:00 12:00 16:00
tuesday 10:00 12:00 12:00 16:00
wednesday 10:00 12:00 12:00 16:00 18:30 22:30
thursday 10:00 12:00 12:00 16:00
friday 10:00 12:00 12:00 16:00
saturday
sunday

Type of organisation

NGO

Types of services offered

  • Health
  • Legal Advice
  • Social

Cost of services

  • Free

Services provided to

  • sex workers
  • For friends and family members if the issue is related to the friend’s/family member’s sex work.

Nature of services

  • Anonymous
  • Confidential
  • Registration with initials or nickname
  • Registration with initials or nickname required for eg. STI tests that are sent to laboratory

Where do you offer your services

  • Ambulatory
  • Counselling Centre
  • Drop-in on community basis
  • Drop-in on institutional basis
  • Outreach
  • Telephone, Internet, chat-line

Available professionals

  • Cultural Mediators
  • Interpreters

Professionals in place

  • Lawyers
  • Legal Advisers
  • Medical Doctors
  • Nurses
  • Outreach Workers
  • Peer Educators
  • Social Assistants
  • Social Workers

Languages spoken in your services

  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • Russian
  • Swedish
  • Thai

Multilingual information materials

  • Albanian
  • Bulgarian
  • Czech
  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Rumenian
  • Russian
  • Slovak
  • Spanish
  • Thai
  • Ukrainian

Health services provided

  • Condoms + safe sex materials
  • Contraception
  • Counselling Hepatitis B + C
  • Counselling Urgent Exposition HIV
  • Counselling gender identity
  • General Health
  • HIV Counselling before and after Testing
  • HIV Prevention and Health Promotion (Information + Advise)
  • HIV Testing
  • Mental Health
  • Needle exchange
  • Pregnancy Testing
  • Quick Test HIV
  • Reduction of Harm for Drug Users (Information + Advise)
  • STI Testing
  • STI Treatment
  • Vaccination Hepatitis B
  • infections that do not require hospitalisation or assessment and treatment by a specialist doctor (eg.localised infections due to IV drug use, UTI'S)
  • Referrals to specialist medical services (eg.abortion, substance use problems, psychiatry)

Social services provided

Legal advice provided

  • Divorce
  • Drug use
  • Family
  • Migration
  • Prostitution
  • Support for victims of crime
  • human trafficking

Are STI tests mandatory?

No

Remarks

Drop-in available for sex workers & ex sex workers every Monday and Thursday 12- 4 pm

Street outreach and outreach in striptease bars every Wednesday 6.30 pm - 10.30 pm

Outreach in thai-massage parlors Wed 12- 4 pm

Outreach to bars/clubs targeting women once a month Thursdays 8 pm - 1 am

Peer group activities every Tuesday 2 pm- 4 pm (lunch provided)

On line chat every Tues 2.30 pm - 4 pm for all sex workers (women, men, trans)

One to one appointments via prior arrangement, available also outwith office hours and outside service premises.

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