Safe Work Coalition
Uplifting Voices, Ensuring Care, Restoring Humanity.
The Safe Work Coalition builds community, trust, and support networks for sex workers and adult industry workers through peer-centered outreach, safe spaces, and resource navigation, connecting individuals to trusted services so they can live and work more safely and sustainably.
Empowerment Workshops
Our workshops equip adult industry workers with real-world skills to thrive. Learn how to set strong boundaries, communicate with confidence, and advocate for yourself. Build your business through entrepreneurship training, income-growth strategies, and marketing tools that boost visibility across platforms.
Healthcare Access
We are expanding inclusive care for safer working conditions for adult industry workers. Building a network of trained professionals to provide mental healthcare, preventive care, harm reduction and general health.
Legal Aid
Our Legal Aid section provides access to confidential, non-judgmental legal assistance for sex workers facing issues such as expungement, discrimination, criminal charges, or immigration concerns. We connect individuals with experienced legal professionals who understand the unique challenges of the industry and advocate for justice, protection, and empowerment.
Safe Use & Harm Reduction Resources
We believe every adult industry worker deserves to work with dignity, safety, and respect. Our harm reduction approach provides practical, non-judgmental support to reduce risks associated with the adult industry.
Housing Assistance
Our Housing Assistance program connects individuals with safe, inclusive, and affordable housing options, as well as emergency shelter resources. We work with trusted partners to ensure access to services without stigma or discrimination, helping adult industry workers find stability and security in their living situations.
From Care to Canvas: The Story of Safe Work Coalition
In the heart of San Francisco—a city known for progress yet marked by inequity—adult industry workers are finding strength and visibility through the advocacy and artistry of Candace “CeeCee” Collins, founder of The Safe Work Coalition.While earning her degree in public health, CeeCee worked as a sex worker through college, an experience that profoundly shaped her understanding of autonomy, survival, stigma, and care. Coupled with more than a decade in healthcare, this lived experience gave her rare, firsthand insight into the systemic gaps facing adult industry workers and the resilience required to navigate them.In 2023, CeeCee became a full-time painter. Her impressionist “porntraits,” rendered in warm, defiant colors, began as intimate tributes to friends and former clients from her time in the trade. What started as art for healing quickly evolved into a powerful medium for visibility, truth-telling, and cultural change.Witnessing the persistent criminalization, isolation, and lack of access to care faced by adult industry workers, CeeCee founded The Safe Work Coalition—a grassroots network advancing their rights, safety, and dignity. The Coalition advocates for the full decriminalization of sex work while providing adult industry workers with the tools, care, and community they need to thrive.Through peer-led organizing, mutual aid, empowerment workshops, and partnerships with healthcare, legal, and housing providers, the Coalition delivers education, healthcare access, housing and legal support, and business development resources that help workers earn safely and sustainably.As technology accelerates and isolation grows, The Safe Work Coalition creates connection, visibility, and pathways to empowerment—building systems rooted in decriminalization, harm reduction, and human rights.
Where lived experience became leadership, compassion became color, and art became action.