Washington Advisory Committee on Trafficking (WashACT)

Since 2004, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Washington and the Seattle Police Department (SPD), along with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington (USAO) and other partners, have used Department of Justice (DOJ) funding to lead Western Washington’s response to human trafficking through a collaborative, victim-centered task force, the Washington Advisory Committee on Trafficking (WashACT).

With renewed ECM funding, IRC and SPD will support a sustainable, multidisciplinary, co-leadership task force approach to improve and increase victim identification of all forms of human trafficking, provide victims with access to services, and seek justice on their behalf. They will also develop and implement detailed protocols to guide collaborative work to identify and support survivors and design and provide training to partners nationwide.