About Wayplace

Wayplace is a new, innovative solution to help survivors connect with services across the United States that best match their needs and preferences. Launched in 2026, this web app was built to replace Atlas Free’s Alliance Referral System, a manual system that ran for seven (7) years and supported over 3,200 referrals from survivors seeking help.

About Atlas Free

Atlas Free is a nonprofit with the mission to accelerate and resource the fight against sex trafficking and exploitation. Atlas Free achieves this primarily through a global network of over 140 organizations united around a strategic framework to stop traffickers, care for survivors, and put sex trafficking out of business.

Atlas Free Network Members dedicate the majority of their programming around:

  • Perpetrator Accountability

  • Survivor Care

  • Targeted Prevention

  • Policy and Advocacy

 

Together, Atlas Free Network Members are making a difference, and more people are finding freedom.

Learn more about Atlas Free.

Learn more about Atlas Free’s Network.

Why a web app?

A web app is an app that opens in a web browser. There’s no need to download or install anything — just go to a website and use it. Mobile apps and desktop apps, by comparison, require the user to download them onto their device. 

For victims who are seeking help while still being exploited, downloading an app could mean a greater risk of the trafficker finding out. 

Wayplace was built with the safety of survivors in mind; with a web app, they can simply use any browser on their device. Since a browser is a normal, existing app on a device, this should not increase risk of attention from a trafficker.


Once individuals are in the web app, they will always have the option to use the Safe Exit button. This button links to a safe website that would not peak the suspicion of a trafficker or other unsafe person. The Safe Exit button default is google.com, but can be customized by the survivor to be any site they want. Check out the Help Center for a tutorial on how to customize the safe exit button.

Other Safety Precautions

Wayplace limits the personal identifiable information that a survivor has to share in the app itself. To register, you only need an email and a username. The username does not have to be your real name. At no point will a survivor be required to give their exact location, phone number, or real name while in the app. 

Even when an advocate is using the app on behalf of survivor clients, they do not use real names. Instead they will have client numbers and “nicknames” that would help them keep track of clients’ service requests without adding their personal information into the app. 

Once a survivor matches with a service, they will receive specific contact information from the service organization; the survivor then can choose to reach out at the time that is safest and most convenient for them. At this point, the service organization can require some personal information, but that would be outside of the app, so it would in no way be stored in the app.