-: My name is Nora Riggs, and I'm a social worker.
I work in downtown Toledo at a program called RISE.
It's through the Salvation Army, and it stands for
Recovering Individuals from Sexual Exploitation.
So we serve survivors of trafficking,
exploitation, and that kinda thing.
Yeah, I think, honestly, networking has been
the biggest help for me.
When I was at UT, I had a professor that I worked with here
that just literally connected me to so many people
and said, "Hey, there's this thing going on.
"You should go to it."
I think just get connected to people in your community,
or the community that you wanna work in
'cause that's how, I think the phrase,
it's not what you know, it's who you know,
it sort of still applies, I think,
in social work in a lot of ways.
So yeah, just get connected and start getting involved.