WA-SAST is a statewide platform that brings training, resources, and service information into one place, so your team is not relying on scattered documents, outdated links, or informal word-of-mouth to find what they need. It is built to support real-world workflows, including staff turnover, limited training capacity, and the day-to-day reality of managing multiple priorities at once.

Use WA-SAST to strengthen consistency across staff, improve access to training, and give your team a shared starting point for trusted information.

What WA-SAST Can Do for Your Team

Ways WA-SAST Can Support Your Team

If you manage onboarding, supervision, referrals, or staff development, WA-SAST can take pressure off your day-to-day workflow. The tools below are designed to help you get new staff oriented sooner, make resources easier to find and share, strengthen referral pathways through the organization directory, and stay connected to live learning opportunities across the state.

Training Without Waiting

Hiring and onboarding are hard enough without long delays before training is available. WA-SAST helps by offering self-paced learning options your staff can access when they are hired, not only when the next in-person training happens to be scheduled.

  • Create a clearer onboarding path for new staff and volunteers

  • Reduce gaps between hiring and staff readiness

  • Spend less time tracking down information on staff training dates and hours

  • Increase access to training and strengthen victim services

Browse Training Categories

Statewide Events Calendar

WA-SAST is also a place to find live learning opportunities and events across the state, including virtual and in-person options. This can help you identify opportunities for professional development, cross-training, and staff connection without having to track multiple calendars and email lists.

  • Find upcoming trainings, webinars, and community events in one place

  • Filter by format (in-person or virtual) and quickly see what fits your schedule

  • Share events with staff and build professional development plans without chasing multiple calendars

 

Events Calendar

Make Referrals Easier

Referrals work best when they are clear, current, and easy to act on. The WA-SAST Organization Directory helps staff quickly identify programs and services across Washington, including organizations that serve specific regions, communities, and needs. This can be especially useful when a survivor is relocating, traveling, needs a different type of support than your program provides, or is looking for a culturally responsive option.

Managers can also use the directory as a shared referral tool for staff, reducing time spent searching for contact information, confirming service areas, or tracking down “who serves this county again?” Over time, a well-used directory strengthens coordination across the state and helps survivors reach support faster.

Organization Directory

Resources Your Team Can Trust

The library includes documents and links from contributors and state agency partners. You will find items like document templates, service standards, accreditation materials, budget worksheets, and other practical tools agencies use every day. If you cannot find what you need, you can submit a resource request through WA-SAST. We may be able to help source it or prioritize adding it to the library.

  • Find resource faster during high-pressure moments

  • Build shared language and tools across teams

  • Create a shared space for learning and practical support

Resource Library

Newsletter Updates

When you create a WA-SAST account, you are automatically subscribed to our statewide newsletter so you and your staff can stay informed about new training, resources, and live learning opportunities. Agencies can also use the newsletter to share announcements with the field, and submissions are reviewed by WA-SAST to keep posts useful, relevant, and respectful of people’s time.

  • Automatic subscription for all WA-SAST account holders

  • Stay updated on new trainings, resources, and statewide events

  • Share announcements like trainings, events, and new resources with the field

Newsletter Contributions

Get Involved With WA-SAST

This platform works best when agencies and staff use it regularly and help shape what it becomes over time. Create free accounts for you and your team to access training and resources and consider becoming a contributor if your program has tools, templates, events, or culturally and linguistically specific materials that could benefit others across Washington.

Create Accounts for You and Your Team

A WA-SAST account is free, and it gives staff access to training, the resource library, and other tools designed for Washington’s victim services field. Creating accounts for your team makes onboarding easier, supports shared language and shared resources across roles, and helps staff find what they need without waiting for someone to forward a document or resend a link.

We encourage managers to create an account first, then share WA-SAST with staff and invite them to set up their own accounts. That way, everyone can access resources directly, stay informed as new content is added, and use WA-SAST as a consistent starting point in day-to-day work.

Create an Account

Become a WA-SAST Contributor

WA-SAST improves by adding resources that programs are creating and using every day. As a contributor, you can share events, news updates, practical tools like templates and worksheets, and other resources that help staff work more efficiently and consistently.

We especially value contributions that increase access, including culturally and linguistically specific materials that help ensure services are appropriate, accessible, and responsive for people from different communities. 

Learn about Contributing

Our Path Forward

WA-SAST is growing alongside the field, with the goal of making it easier for teams to access training, share trusted resources, and stay connected across Washington. We are building toward Consolidated Core, a comprehensive organization directory, and an expanding resource library. If you have ideas that would make WA-SAST more useful for your program or the communities you serve, please share them. Your feature requests help guide what we build next.

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WA-SAST will keep growing to meet the needs of victim service agencies and the communities they support. Our roadmap includes features that support day-to-day direct service work and tools that help agency leadership with onboarding, training, and coordination.

  • Practical tools that reduce friction for advocates

  • Manager supports for onboarding, training, and consistency

  • More resources, including culturally and language specific materials

  • Priorities shaped by feature requests from the field

The Future of Consolidated Core

When training and resources are duplicated across systems, it adds work for managers and slows down staff. WA-SAST is part of a larger effort to reduce duplication across the field and make training pathways easier to navigate.

  • Less time spent coordinating basic training logistics

  • Fewer repeated trainings that cover the same foundations

  • More flexibility in how staff complete learning requirements

  • Stronger consistency, without forcing a one-size-fits-all approach

Learn About Consolidated Core
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