Directory of Services
What is the Directory of Services?
The Warnath Group is pleased to have partnered with the U.S. and Costa Rica governments to develop a Directory of Services and Information for the Protection of Child and Adolescent Trafficking Victims. This Directory of Services is a resource for practitioners in Costa Rica about where to find protection and assistance for child and adolescent trafficking victims and their families in Guanacaste, Puntarenas, and San José.
The Directory of Services is currently only available in Spanish. An English version will be available soon.
The Directory of Services provides critical information on how practitioners can preliminarily identify and refer a child or adolescent trafficking victim for protection and assistance, including formal accreditation through the CONATT Immediate Response Team (ERI), as well as how to report and refer potential trafficking situations for investigation by FACTRA. In addition, the Directory of Services offers information about and examples of child and adolescent trafficking in Costa Rica, and answers to frequently asked questions to equip practitioners to recognize and respond to child and adolescent trafficking. This resource puts this important and life-saving information into the hands of practitioners who are at the frontline of combatting child sex trafficking in Costa Rica.
The service providers included in this Directory of Services were validated in partnership with CONACOES. The Warnath Group would like to thank the Government of Costa Rica institutions and non-governmental organizations who participated in the creation of this resource for their collaboration.
About the Directory of Services
What types of assistance are included in the Directory of Services?
Who is the Directory of Services for?
This publication is for practitioners who, through their day-to-day work, may come into contact with possible child and adolescent trafficking victims. It can also be used by anyone who may know or suspect that a child or adolescent has been trafficked and needs protection and assistance.
How do you use the Directory of Services?
If you are a professional or practitioner who interacts with children or adolescents or may come into contact with victims of trafficking, this publication can help you to understand what to do and whom to contact to appropriately address the situation. You can use this publication to:
– learn about the rights that trafficking victims have;
– learn about the support and protection services available for trafficking victims; and
– learn how to communicate with the providers of such services.
What is the Map of Available Services?
All children and adolescents in Costa Rica have the right to be protected and receive help. There are different services available to all children and adolescents, regardless of whether or not they have been trafficked. The IACT Program created a map of available services for child and adolescent trafficking victims in Guanacaste, Puntarenas, and San José, Costa Rica (updated as of June, 2024).
In addition to being listed in the Directory of Services, contact information for service providers can be found on the accompanying Map of Available Services for Child and Adolescent Trafficking Victims in Guanacaste, Puntarenas, and San José. Please click on the expand button 
to access the map.
About the Map of Available Services
How do you access the Map of Available Services?
You can always access the Map of Available Services by clicking the link below. When you click the link below, a new tab will open in your web browser and you will be directed to the Map of Available Services via Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1QCdTSL2k6xP3zEJqtDNrYz4SDk99Vwk&femb=1&ll=9.633440559599258%2C-84.32992300000001&z=8.
Who is the Map of Available Services for?
This map is for practitioners who, through their day-to-day work, may come into contact with possible child and adolescent trafficking victims. It can also be used by anyone who may know or suspect that a child or adolescent has been trafficked and needs protection and assistance.
How do you use the Map of Available Services?
As a viewer of the map, you may choose between two base maps upon which the layers rest. The default base layer is the lightly shaded political map. To change this: First, make sure the map legend is open by clicking “map legend” in the top left of the screen. With the map legend open, navigate to the bottom left of the screen and click on the miniature map in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
As a viewer of the map, you can also choose which layers to display on the base map. Again, make sure the map legend is open. Next, check the box to left of the name of the layer. You may display any number of layers at one time.
If you check a layer, you will then see a list of all the corresponding offices for that layer. Click on “more” to see all the offices if necessary. You may click on an office on the map legend or on the map itself. Doing so will provide you with details about the office on the left side of the screen. Click the back arrow on the left side of the screen to return.
You may collapse the map legend at any time by clicking on the three dots arranged vertically on the map legend, and clicking “collapse map legend.”
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