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Text Box: Mary Schmidbauer joined Second Chance in January 2008 as Program Director. We are truly looking forward to working with her, learning from her, and growing together as an agency. Mary’s past work experiences includes community organizing in the early 90’s in Toledo’s north end. She explains her experiences at Northriver Development: “The issues identified by the leadership of the North Corridor Coalition were neighborhood safety - specifically the heavy prostitution and drug dealing. There was this new pilot program happening at the Friendly Center by a woman from the neighbor

Text Box: hood who was working with prostitutes to give them a Second Chance. That was my first exposure to Second Chance and to Celia Williamson. Celia’s work was critical in educating the Northend neighborhood about trafficking and beginning to shift the focus from the women involved to the customers/johns who purchased services from the women.” Mary’s reasons for joining the Second Chance team include her passion and drive to strengthen and empower our community. “I have had an interest and passion about the work of Second Chance since becoming familiar with the

Text Box: pilot program’s work in the early 90’s. It’s exciting to see the growth of the program and the development of the organization over time. Continues on page 2

Text Box: Second Chance and the University of Toledo Social Work Department will again be hosting the annual Prostitution, Sex Work and Human Trafficking Conference. The conference will be on September 18 and 19, 2008 at the University of Toledo Student Union. Cur

Text Box: rently the conference committee is accepting abstracts for presentations. Presentations must be about the commercial sex industry or human trafficking. Researchers, practitioners, and survivors are encouraged to submit abstracts for presentations. More information in

Text Box: cluding registration information can be found at www.ProstitutionConference.com or by calling Second Chance at 419-244-6050. By Jessica Trease

Second Chance Newsletter

Teen Groups	2
State House Event on Human Trafficking	2
Report Details Cases on Human Trafficking	3
About Second Chance	4