Our Services
Empowering Survivors, Educating Communities, and Fostering Collaboration
Comprehensive Support for Survivors
Introduction
At WARN, we are committed to delivering a wide range of services that are age-appropriate, linguistically tailored, and culturally sensitive. Our approach is client-driven and trauma-informed, ensuring that survivors of human trafficking receive the support they need to heal and rebuild their lives until they achieve self-sufficiency. All services provided by WARN are free and confidential. There is no time limit on how long a survivor can be enrolled in WARN programming, and anyone who has experienced human trafficking is eligible for services as long as they can be reached by an advocate in the greater King-Pierce-Snohomish County area. WARN serves all survivors of human trafficking, regardless of age, gender, sexuality, race, or immigration status. Survivors are also eligible for WARN services regardless of the industry, location, or dates of their trafficking experience. If you or someone you know has any questions about a possible human trafficking experience or eligibility for WARN’s services, please reach out to our team at [email protected].
WARN advocates work closely with clients to facilitate connections with a range of services and benefits. Our team might be experts on available resources, but survivors are the experts on their lives and they lead their path to safety and self-sufficiency.
Survivor Support Services
- Intensive Case Management and Safety Planning: Developing personalized support plans that address the unique needs of each survivor.
- Basic Needs: Providing safe housing, nutritious food, utilities support, and appropriate clothing to ensure the immediate well-being of survivors.
- Gathering Needed Documents and Benefit Navigation: Explaining document retrieval processes and benefits systems while navigating state programs with survivors.
- Connection to Civil Legal Services and Immigration Relief: Providing information and support with referrals while exploring temporary and long-term options.
- Access to Language Services and Interpretation: Facilitating clear communication by removing language barriers between survivors and service providers.
- Criminal Justice and Victim Rights Advocacy: Ensuring that survivors are supported and respected throughout the legal process if they choose to pursue criminal justice outcomes.
- Medical and Mental Health Treatment: Accessing professional health care services to address illness, injury, and psychological trauma, including in-house specialized counseling.
- Education and Job Readiness Training: Equipping survivors with the necessary skills and knowledge for future employment and independence.
- Financial Education and Budgeting Information: Connecting survivors to resources and information to save, budget, and grow wealth.
- Family Reunification: Bringing together and reuniting survivors’ family members through legal, coordination, and transportation services.
Education and Training Program
Enhancing Community and Professional Response
WARN is dedicated to educating service providers, law enforcement personnel, systems-based advocates, and community groups across Washington State. Our team provides essential training and technical assistance to service providers and community members who encounter or work with potential survivors of human trafficking. This support is free, confidential, and aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of those on the front lines of this critical issue.
Our training programs are designed to increase awareness and understanding of human trafficking, improve the identification of victims, and enhance the provision of services to better meet survivors’ needs through trauma-informed and survivor-centered practices. We provide customized training content for teams who may encounter human trafficking survivors through service provision or community programs. If your team is interested in learning more about human trafficking, survivor-centered response, and how to refer someone to WARN for services, reach out to [email protected].
You can reach out via the WARN contact page to request technical assistance and training in the following areas:
- General human trafficking awareness and response
- Labor trafficking
- Labor trafficking with a focus on minors and children
- Sex trafficking
Collaborative Training
By coordinating with experienced partners in human trafficking response including law enforcement agents, immigration attorneys, labor standards professionals, and youth advocates, WARN offers collaborative training sessions that combine expertise from various fields, ensuring a comprehensive and effective approach to combating human trafficking.
Multidisciplinary Response
Strengthening Partnerships
WARN collaborates closely with other service providers, law enforcement agencies, legal advocates, and others to enhance the identification of victims, build community capacity to serve survivors effectively, and improve the overall response to human trafficking in Washington State. Everyone can play a role in identifying and offering supportive services for survivors of trafficking, including health care providers, community members, educators, and religious communities.
Individuals may have a range of needs following a trafficking experience, including but not limited to: medical, dental, or vision care, mental health treatment, legal support, housing, food access, family reunification, immigration relief, education, and employment. With strong working relationships with city and state inter-agency partners, WARN is able to support clients as they work towards self-sufficiency across a spectrum of social determinants of health.
Leadership in Action
IRC WARN co-chairs the Washington Advisory Committee on Trafficking with Seattle Police Department in partnership with the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. WARN members play a pivotal role supporting the coordination of this multidisciplinary statewide task force that includes attorneys, immigration experts, healthcare staff, victim support teams, transportation and labor standards officers, and law enforcement agencies at the city, state, and federal level.
To learn more about WashACT, visit https://washact.com/. WashACT holds information sessions at least twice a year for prospective members and anyone interested in learning more about human trafficking response in Washington State.