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UT faculty member appears on ‘Primetime Live’ |
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Kim Harvey |
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Jul 17, 2008
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Dr. Celia Williamson, UT associate professor of social work, appeared on last night’s edition of the ABC news program “Primetime Live.”
Williamson, a social researcher, was interviewed as an expert resource regarding child prostitution. The story focused on two local teenagers who were forced into a prostitution ring.
Williamson is a faculty member in the College of Health Science and Human Service.
She created a local organization called Second Chance to help those in the illegal sex industry. The organization offers advocacy support and job placement. Second Chance is expected to open a safe house next month in the Toledo area.
For the past four years, Williamson has held a national conference on prostitution, sex work and commercial sex industry at UT. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners in an effort to lay the groundwork for future collaborative research, advocacy and program development. The conference also educates social service, health-care and criminal justice professionals about the needs and risks of women involved in commercial sex work.
“It’s easy to cast prostitution aside as an issue only for the police, but especially when so many of these women started — often against their will — as girls, our community and our society need to see that the solution requires the coordination of criminal justice, social service and health-care agencies along with churches, citizens and survivors," she said.
Visit http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=5382645&page=1 to read about the “Primetime Live” story.
For details about Williamson’s organization, visit http://secondchancetoledo.org.
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