WARN | Washington Anti-Trafficking Response Network

06/27/2025

The WARN team is excited to join other community organizations and connect with our neighbors at WORLD REFUGEE DAY 2025 Global Village! Looking forward to seeing you there :)

Sharing your Saturday plans with you:)) You know where you need to be:))
Looking forward to all our community partners & Sponsors- lets do this!! King County Library City of Tukwila - Government IRC Women's English Access Volunteer Group Arman Karimi Community Health Plan of Washington Hazara Community of Washington انجمن هزاره های واشنگتن City of Seattle Immigrant & Refugee Commission International Rescue Committee Business Impact NW BECU Mother Africa The Seattle Public Library The House of Wisdom SCM Coordinated Care Seattle Human ServicesTukwila School District HealthPoint Hopelink Mother Africa Solid Ground Undaunted Women Seattle Human Rights Commission Ubumwe Women Seattle Credit Union Congolese Integration Network.Mother Africa Hamdi Mohamed Afghan Health Initiative Refugee Women's Alliance (ReWA)City of SeaTac Parks and Recreation City of SeaTac - Government Experience Tukwila Partner In Employment Global Perinatal Services Kabul Seattle Community Services گروپ انجمن کابل سیاتل Port Jobs Neighborhood House Refugee Artisan InitiativeBusiness Impact NWNashi Immigrants Health Board University Heights Center Silk Route Early Svcs The House of Wisdom Starbucks Nayamode Arcora Foundation RSVP link for all guests- https://bit.ly/4cHbQca.

06/17/2025

Support survivors of human trafficking with WARN! WARN has been providing services and walking alongside survivors for 20 years, and we're looking to our community to help continue our mission. 100% of your donation will go to supporting survivor clients with essential services!

Follow this link to learn more and donate today:

WARN is celebrating 20 years of providing services for survivors of human trafficking and helping our clients reach self-sufficiency! Please help us fund essential client services including rental assistance, mental health counseling, medical and dental treatment, and much more.

05/20/2025

Want to support anti-trafficking efforts but not sure where to start? WARN is looking for partners, volunteers, and community members to help our cause 📢

We're campaigning throughout 2025 to raise funding for anti-trafficking services and increase awareness of human trafficking. We're looking for local businesses, organizations, and community partners to join us in our fundraising efforts.

Now more than ever, we need to come together to support our neighbors who have experienced human trafficking. Both labor trafficking and s*x trafficking are vastly underreported in Washington, but the data we have shows that these crimes are happening in our backyard and traffickers are targeting our community’s most vulnerable members.

Interested in contributing to our mission? The best way to prevent and respond to human trafficking is as a community! Throughout 2025, WARN will be leading human trafficking awareness and response trainings for groups who want to learn more about the human trafficking epidemic and how they can help. You can gather your friends, colleagues, church, or neighbors. If you organize a group and collect ‘ticket’ donations (we suggest a sliding scale from $15-30), a WARN trainer will come to you and provide information about human trafficking and local response efforts. We can also suggest films that are recommended by trafficking survivors for their portrayals of human trafficking and related issues, so you can host a movie night and discussion!
https://warn-trafficking.org/

04/22/2025

WARN is honored to have presented at the Freedom Network USA Anti-Trafficking Conference alongside Washington Advisory Committee on Trafficking (WashACT) co-chairs!

WARN co-leads the WashACT statewide anti-trafficking task force in partnership with the Seattle Police Department and the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington. Our FNUSA presentation was on a groundbreaking labor trafficking case from 2024 in which the owner of a Vashon Island landscaping company was convicted of several counts including labor trafficking and money laundering. A WARN advocate spoke on service provision alongside the investigator and the prosecutor for the case.

To read the press release from USAO WDWA:

Seattle –A 45-year-old Vashon Island, Washington resident was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 20 years in prison for 21 federal felonies related to human trafficking and forced labor, announced U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman.

03/18/2025

WARN is honored to be in community with partners like API Chaya. Earlier this month, API Chaya hosted their 30th anniversary vigil to remember the lives of Susana Remerata Blackwell, baby Kristine, Phoebe Dizon, and Veronica Laureta Johnson, who were all murdered by Susana's abusive husband at the King County Courthouse in 1995.

02/19/2025

WARN has been providing services for survivors of human trafficking for 🙌20 YEARS🙌 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a campaign to expand the essential resources WARN clients receive.

Please help us fund essential client services including rental assistance, mental health counseling, medical and dental treatment, and much more. Your contribution will directly support human trafficking survivors as they work towards self-sufficiency.

Learn more about human trafficking, Washington Anti-Trafficking Response Network, and how you can take action to support survivors as they rebuild their lives here: https://warn-trafficking.org/

The Washington Anti-Trafficking Response Network (WARN) is a dynamic coalition led by the International Rescue Committee in Washington, uniting non-governmental organizations to offer direct support to victims of human trafficking across Washington State. Since our inception in 2004, we’ve been co...

01/23/2025

WARN is offering a free virtual educational event next week!

The Washington Anti-Trafficking Response Network (WARN) team is hosting a short documentary screening and panel discussion on Friday January 31 from 12pm - 1:15pm on labor trafficking and our approach to supporting survivors as they work toward self-sufficiency. We'd love to have a community reach with this event because the issue of human trafficking requires a community response! Please join us to learn more about our work, and feel free to bring your lunch :)

Details and registration:

The WARN IRC team will be hosting a community virtual viewing of the 15-minute documentary "This Adventure Called California," with a conversation to follow on barriers and WARN's approach to human trafficking response. Treeclimber Media has shared their award-winning short film to spread awareness....

12/26/2024

Interested in learning more about human trafficking and how you can support survivors as we approach the end of the year? Spend a movie night learning more about human trafficking, and get ready to take action in January for Human Trafficking Awareness Month!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CpP8cfdExeZ1WTcadAmGiaM53GcwjiFrzCK1BeXFnJY/edit?usp=sharing

This list of media about human trafficking was vetted by survivors around the world, led by Sabra Boyd. The list includes documentaries, television series, and scripted feature films. In Sabra’s words, these stories “highlight the root causes of human trafficking which include housing, disparity, poverty, immigration policy, incarceration, racism, transphobia and homophobia, misogyny, the stigma that trafficked boys and men face, familial child trafficking, MMIP, police violence, religious abuse, child marriage, reproductive rights and access to healthcare, and many other intersecting factors.”

How To Credit This List This list of survivor-vetted films about human trafficking was created and curated by the trafficking survivor community around the world, led by Sabra Boyd, an independent writer and consultant with lived experience of human trafficking. Please note, Sabra is the only n...

11/12/2024

The WARN team looks forward to El Centro de la Raza’s Día de los Mu***os festival every year! We’re grateful for the opportunity to participate and create an ofrenda to honor survivors of human trafficking.

Why do we use a mirror in our ofrenda?

Human trafficking can be experienced by anyone and can occur anywhere within a community, and survivors are entitled to confidential services. Ofrendas often have images of loved ones. By using a mirror, we aim to highlight the pervasiveness of this issue, include faces from the community in our display, and protect the privacy of survivors.

10/22/2024

Last month, WARN was delighted to join our community partner Puget Sound Training Center as they celebrated 25 years of providing career training and employment services with a resource fair at Renton Technical College! We shared information on human trafficking awareness and WARN services with community members and connected with organizations doing incredible work in Renton and beyond. Thank you PSTC for an amazing day filled with resources, games, music, and BBQ ❣️

Learn more about Puget Sound Training Center and their programs here: https://www.pstrainingcenter.org/