- The national human trafficking hotline answered more than 19,400 calls, reported more than 770 human trafficking cases to law enforcement, and helped more than 1,200 trafficking victims access services.
- Our client services program provided 141 survivors of human trafficking with assistance, counseling and job training, and provided 2,497 nights of shelter, enabling them to take important steps towards their own recovery and their own vision for the next chapter in their lives.
- We helped pass 18 state-level bills aimed at strengthening the anti-trafficking legal framework to ensure that victims are helped and perpetrators are punished.
- We trained more than 20,000 individuals -- including local law enforcement, prosecutors, and domestic violence and sexual assault advocates -- to identify and recognize the signs of human trafficking, and to know how to respond when trafficking cases are discovered.
- Millions of community members were informed about the issue of human trafficking through broadcasts and articles that Polaris supported in national media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.
- Polaris Project Japan hosted its first-ever international symposium bringing together professionals from five countries and spurring the development of Japan’s anti-human trafficking measures. Several Japanese Diet members and senior government and law enforcement officials were in attendance.
