Lifeline operates on 5 pillars: adoption, being pregnant, household care reunification, orphan care and counseling.

Although the vast majority of girls who come to Lifeline for assist have already made the choice to maintain their infants, Lifeline compassionately helps the rest of the ladies think about the realities of their selections.

“We need to assist girls perceive that you would be able to’t undo what has occurred, so you need to make a proactive alternative for what [they’re] going to do for each [them] and [their] baby,” Newell stated. “The left and the pro-abortion foyer has actually painted this image of ‘you possibly can undo this being pregnant.’ However you possibly can’t undo the being pregnant. Abortion is strictly that: abort.”

By its being pregnant ministry, Lifeline teaches moms the values of not solely their unborn baby’s life but additionally their very own. Lifeline works with native church buildings to supply its “Worthy” curriculum, which is meant to unlock girls’s items in order that they’ll make the perfect choices for his or her youngsters.

Lifeline additionally helps mother and father who’ve misplaced their youngsters to foster care work towards reunifying their households. These mother and father usually find yourself in household courtroom, and lots of of them additionally find yourself in drug courtroom. As a way to get their youngsters again, mother and father are required to take a collection of parenting courses.

Many states, similar to Alabama, present these courses, however they’re typically rigid and restricted. Lifeline’s courses are provided in 19 states and have, as of now, graduated 250 people. 

Of those people, solely 20% have relapsed, which means a overwhelming majority have by no means needed to ship their youngsters again into foster care because of the identical points arising once more. When Lifeline first began, the relapse charge was as excessive as 70%.

Newell attributed Lifeline’s success to its skill to make connections for the mother and father. Lifeline works arduous to create a group across the mother and father and provides them the assets the state is unable to supply.

Lifeline additionally works with orphans each domestically and internationally. Not like comparable organizations, Lifeline helps discover properties for orphans in their very own nation until the assets there are inadequate to satisfy the kid’s wants.

“We’ve obtained to go in and assist create home alternate options for these youngsters,” Newell stated. “We’ve obtained to introduce them to the church. We’ve obtained to assist these orphanages have a plan to have the ability to get these children within the locations the place they’re going to be taken care of, the place they’re going to have a hope for his or her future.”

To do that, Lifeline works with church buildings in communities world wide and gives counseling for adopted youngsters.

Newell stated they’ve discovered a giant distinction within the points confronted by adoptive households versus organic households. Analysis reveals youngsters can expertise trauma inside the house because of substances and different elements.

Lifeline helps these households establish and handle points from the kid’s previous. 

In 2019, Lifeline launched Bridge Academic Providers, which gives academic assets for adoptive households. Newell stated Bridge exploded throughout COVID-19 after many households turned to homeschooling their youngsters.

“We don’t need these households simply to outlive,” Newell stated. “…We would like them to thrive.”