This partnership between WISH and PACE Society (Prostitutes Alternatives Counselling & Education) operates a van that provides services to women working on the street from 10:30 pm to 5:30 am, seven nights a week. March 15, 2005 marked the first anniversary of this two-year pilot project that makes approximately 1,400 connections with women each month.

The primary focus of the Mobile Access Project is to increase the level of health and safety for vulnerable women working the strolls in Vancouver in the night, when no other services are open. Van staff provide brief respite from the street, coffee, juice and water as well as supplies, including condoms and clean needles.  The van can provide information on serivces specific to the needs of women survival sex workers as well as connections to shelters and emergency services.

The MAP van is staffed by women, many of whom have experience in the sex industry and all of whom are able to provide caring and compassionate support to women workin on the street.

Click here to read an Evaluation of the first two years of the Mobile Access Project.