About 45 members of the King County CSEC Task Force, including service providers, trafficking survivors, researchers and state and county employees, met via Zoom on Oct. 18, two weeks after InvestigateWest’s article was published, to figure out how to get the centers running.
InvestigateWest (invw.org) is an independent news nonprofit dedicated to investigative journalism in the Pacific Northwest.
They called for amendments to the Safe Harbor law to increase funding for receiving centers and expand which organizations are eligible to provide services. They also highlighted the need for temporary fixes, like respite centers where kids in crisis can decompress and drop-in day centers, as more permanent solutions lag.
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