Dallas Life

2022 client services program: thrive women's clinic provided one-on-one, lay-counseling, emotional, material and spiritual support to 2,279 unduplicated clients. Clients were seen in the clinic monday through thursdays from 9:00am - 5:30pm at our jupiter clinic until august 26, 2022 when this facilty was closed. We expanded our hours at our greenville avenue clinic to absorb our jupiter clinic clients. Our greenville avenue clinic hours are monday through fridays,9:00am-5:30pm plus we resumed evening hours on tuesdays and thursdays until 8:00pm as of september 13.2022. Our west Dallas clinic hours are monday through wednesday from 9:00am-5:30pm and our irving clinic hours are tuesday thursday 9:00am -5:30pm. Sessions lasted about one and a half hours each and were supported by 3068 volunteer hours. Seventy-eight in-kind donations of clothing and material goods were made and valued at $15,290. The gospel was often shared in our counseling sessions and volunteers often pray for the clients. We recorded 143 new professions of faith in christ in 2022. Our objective was to help clients make an informed decision regarding their pregnancies by educating women and their partners on fetal development and empowering them for a Life decision through our support services. In 2022, 77% of our pregnant clients chose to carry their unborn children to term. Of the 987 clients at risk for abortion, we know of 725 clients, or 73% who chose Life for their unborn children. Our educational mentoring program is a 6-week to 5-year program aimed at moving our clients forward in their lives, preparing them for childbirth, parenting and equipping them with new Life skills. We had 1113 individual one-hour sessions with our educational program in 2022. Clients who participated in this education earned shopping privileges for their babies at our baby stores located in our clinics. We hosted a mother's day party attended by 124 clients and guests and 12 volunteers. In collaboration with church partners, we held a christmas party for our clients and their families. About 301 guests attended the event and 38 volunteers participated in supporting these client events.

2022 public awareness program: this program educated our community through four fundraising events, in addition to 37 speaking opportunities and 105 education class sessions, community fairs and ministry tours regarding our services. More than 3,800 people learned about our organization in 2022. Our nurses educated students in science and health classrooms on fetal development. Events held to bring awareness of our ministry and to raise funding included a women's fundraising brunch, annual dinner and a golf tournament. We shared our fetal development program in engagements in public and private schools educating 2727 students, teachers and adults.

2022 clinic services program: this program, executed by a medical team of 14 nurses, doctors and sonographers, provided free medical care including free pregnancy tests, medical history reviews, and sonograms. Thrive facilitated 1,929 visits to our clinics. 1366 sonograms were performed and 1472 pregnancy tests conducted. 1222 pregnancies were verified for medicaid. There are many collaborating agencies that refer to thrive which we also refer to as appropriate. Hours of operation were: monday through thursdays 9:00am - 5:30pm at our jupiter clinic until august 26, 2022. Mondays through fridays at our greenville avenue clinic with extended hours on tuesdays & thursdays until 8:00pm. Our west Dallas facility hours are 9:00 am-5:30 pm monday - wednesday and our irving clinic tuesday thursday 9:00am -5:30pm. Our medical care is oriented to women in unexpected pregnancies who need pregnancy confirmation, accurate due dates for their deliveries and women who are considering abortion. The clinic staff and medical volunteers conducted health history reviews, educated our clients regarding the fetal development of their babies through ultrasound technology, as well as personal care and healthy behaviors during pregnancy. In the clinic, nurses checked clients' blood pressure and weight and answered concerns they had regarding their pregnancies. Our 3 volunteer doctors reviewed and confirmed our clients' charts and met with them regarding pregnancy concerns. Volunteer nurse, sonographer and physician hours amounted to 338 and were valued at $35,633.