About Second Chance
Who We Are
Second Chance is the only prostitution and trafficking-specific program in Toledo, Ohio that follows the Social Work Code of Ethics and offers quality and comprehensive programming in partnership with professionals and survivors.
We are a team of experienced social workers, trained survivors, undergraduate and graduate interns, and other professionals in the field that advocate for victims and change on local, state, and national levels.
The Second Chance Advisory Board consists of experts, researchers, practitioners, and other community members committed to addressing prostitution, sex trafficking, and commercial sexual exploitation in the community and abroad.
What We Do
Second Chance offers comprehensive services to women victimized by prostitution, girls at risk of being victims of sex trafficking and girls who have been victimized by sex trafficking.
Second Chance develops individualized service plans for each woman or youth involved in programming. Plans are modeled on treatment and recovery practices that support women and youth in healing from trauma, learning and developing a strong sense of self, and challenging and engaging women and youth to develop healthy and authentic relationships.
Services Provided Include
- Intensive Case Management
- Advocacy
- Information and Referral Services
- Harm-Reduction, Education, and Prevention
- Trauma Treatment through Individual Counseling
- Psychosocial Groups, Educational Groups, and Prostitutes Anonymous (PA) for Adult Women
- Support groups for victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)
Who Can Participate
Referrals may come from the criminal justice, social service, health care communities or from victims/survivors themselves. Any woman who has been affected by prostitution and any girl who has been victimized or is at risk of victimization by Commercial Sexual Exploitation or sex trafficking is eligible for services.
Where We Are
Toledo, OH has been identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the FBI as a major recruitment area for child sex trafficking. This means that significant numbers of youth (under 18 years old) who are US citizens are recruited, coerced, kidnapped, and sold into the sex industry. Victims of child sex trafficking are often trafficked from Toledo to other cities throughout the United States. Through research by Dr. Celia Williamson victims reported being trafficked to: New York, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Arkansas, Dayton, Bowling Green, Fort Wayne, Detroit, and Cleveland.
Toledo has extensive trafficking networks that consist of multiple people who all benefit financially off of the sexual exploitation of children.
Trafficking Networks in Toledo, Ohio
To view research by Dr. Celia Williamson on child sex trafficking in Lucas County visit Here