Dallas Life

Client services program: thrive women's clinic provided one-on-one, lay-counseling, emotional, material and spiritual support to 2,232 unduplicated 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. Our west Dallas clinic hours are monday through wednesday from 9:00am-5:30pm and our irving clinic hours are tuesdaythursday 9:00am-5:30pm. Sessions lasted about one and a half hours each and were supported by 3058 volunteer hours. Three hundred and four in-kind donations of clothing and material goods were made and valued at $42,489. The gospel was often shared in our counseling sessions and volunteers often pray for the clients. We recorded 132 new professions of faith in christ in 2023. 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 2023, 84% of our pregnant clients chose to carry their unborn children to term. Of the 937 clients at risk for abortion, we know 710 clients, or 76% 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 1132 individual one-hour sessions with our educational program during the year. Clients who participated in this education earned shopping privileges for their babies at our baby stores located in our clinics. In collaboration with church partners, we held a christmas party for our clients and their families. About 397 guests attended the event and 40 volunteers participated in supporting these client events.

Public awareness program: this program educated our community through four fundraising events and 78 speaking opportunities including community fairs, churches, and ministry tours regarding our services. More than 5144 people learned about our organization in 2023. 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.

Clinic services program: this program, executed by a medical team of 15 nurses, doctors and sonographers, provided free medical care including free pregnancy tests, medical history reviews, and sonograms. Thrive facilitated 1,583 visits to our clinics. 1316 sonograms were performed and 1,263 pregnancy tests conducted. 1,096 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: 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 413 and were valued at $33,683.