Engage Together® is an award-winning, active, and proven community transformation solution. Now powered by Altus, Engage Together is scaling nationwide to support every state and community working to end and prevent human trafficking.
What is the Engage Together Project?
Engage Together strengthens community response to end and prevent human trafficking by providing the data-driven insights and collective impact strategies that communities need to succeed. At its core, Engage Together illuminates a community’s current strengths, gaps, needs, vulnerabilities, and opportunities to collaborate in greater ways to end human trafficking, care well for all those impacted by it, and prevent it in the first place.
Central to this effort is Engage Together’s comprehensive research, mapping and assessments of the current risk and response for human trafficking in a given community or state. These critical insights provide a roadmap for enhanced collaborations and improved strategies for all key community stakeholders.
The Engage Together project works in two powerful phases:
- Phase 1 focuses on research and discovery. Communities receive dynamic dashboards, detailed reports, and a shareable directory of service providers. The findings reveal strengths, gaps, and actionable insights to guide next steps.
- Phase 2 is about all about mobilization. Engage Together’s national team of subject matter experts and partners work closely with a “Dream Team” of local leaders, organizations, and stakeholders to implement solutions, meet needs, and close gaps.
Beyond the data, what makes this approach so transformative is its emphasis on collaboration. Research has proven time and again that communities solve complex problems best when they work together. And Engage Together is always deployed in partnership with and in support of local human trafficking task forces and coalitions, in collaboration with local universities too, coming alongside local leaders to strengthen their efforts and accelerate impact.
Most importantly, this project is about people. It’s about preventing the exploitation of vulnerable individuals in our communities, identifying every victim of any form of trafficking, and supporting every survivor in their journey forward. At Engage Together, we believe every person is uniquely positioned to make a difference, and that together, change can and will happen.
To learn more about how the Engage Together Project strengthens communities, where projects are active now, and how you can join the effort or bring Engage Together to your state, visit engagetogether.com.