Services

New Friends New Life is a faith-based organization that enables women to leave the degradation of the sex industry and to build new lives for themselves and their children. We help women overcome backgrounds of abuse, addiction, poverty, and limited opportunities by providing access to education, job training, interim financial assistance and spiritual support.

Women’s program

NFNL helps women leave sexually oriented businesses through operating a program of assistance based on expectations of accountability and responsibility on the part of those helped. Participants, called Protégés, commit to changing their lifestyles, living within a budget, remaining drug and alcohol-free, and gaining the education or skills needed to acquire conventional employment. As women stabilize their lives, their children’s circumstances and future opportunities drastically improve.

Children and youth program

We are committed to helping the children and youth of NFNL grow and mature emotionally, spiritually, academically and physically through our services to children and their moms. Protégés and potential protégés are encouraged to bring their children to our Wednesday night meeting. Each week we serve between 20-40 children and youth ranging in age from birth to 18 years of age in programs for preschool, elementary, and middle school/high school students.

Women wanting out of the sex industry

For women wanting to out of sexually oriented businesses, you can hear words of encouragement by women who are or have been protégés and an open letter from protégé advocates here.

Community outreach

NFNL serves the community through speaking engagements by staff or graduates of the program. We bring awareness to the issue of commercial sexual exploitation, educate the community about the work of NFNL, and serve as a resource to those wanting to learn more. NFNL also serves incarcerated youth in the Dallas Juvenille Detention Center through facilitating group counseling.