"There’s been a lot of attention put forward to missing and murdered indigenous women lately,” Barnett said. “What we want to do is stem the tide. We’re trying to keep women from ever getting in that position in the first place."

Women who are being trafficked go to grocery stores, doctors and hotels all the time, he said, and the goal is to get people who work in those places trained to recognize victims.

"We want to get people trained to identify them and help them before they become missing and murdered," Barnett said. "That’s our goal.”

In the first year, the money will go toward planning and building a network of partner organizations.

“The second and third year are about actually delivering,” Barnett said.

They’ll work with the Missoula Human Trafficking Task Force and other organizations to provide people who might come across trafficking victims with training on identifying those people and helping them on the spot. The second goal is to provide services to women who have been identified as victims of trafficking.