{"id":18036,"date":"2013-10-24T13:18:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=18036"},"modified":"2013-11-03T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T03:33:47","slug":"friends-for-life-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=18036","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit organization helps women in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.35.04-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18056 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-17 at 11.35.04 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.35.04-AM-1024x571.png\" width=\"608\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.35.04-AM-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.35.04-AM-400x223.png 400w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.35.04-AM-98x55.png 98w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.35.04-AM.png 1912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a>Friends for Life, opened in 1998, is a nonprofit organization that aims to help women make life affirming choices.<br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><br \/>\nThis organization builds friendships, establishes trust, and helps women support one another.<br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve had a drug problem in the past, and as soon as I came in here I felt really comfortable, and they did not judge me for my past. They are helping me grow and learn how to be a better person and a better mother,&#8221; said Danna.<br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><br \/>\nFriends for Life has reached out and lent a helping hand to a large amount of women throughout the years.<br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;When I did not have medicaid, I came here and they helped me with my first ultrasound,&#8221; said Rocio.<br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18055 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-17 at 11.30.44 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.30.44-AM-400x224.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.30.44-AM-400x224.png 400w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.30.44-AM-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.30.44-AM-98x55.png 98w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.30.44-AM.png 1914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This organization serves as a great opportunity for women to better themselves as mothers, daughters, friends, and women.<br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;They are helping me to be a better mother to my three children and helping me to get my children back,&#8221; said Danna.<br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><br \/>\nFriends for Life has reached out further than the community of Searcy, they also have a pregnancy center located in Heber Springs.<br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;God has just extended our boundaries; three years ago is when we opened a pregnancy center,&#8221; said Kim Richards.<br class=\"blank\" \/><br class=\"blank\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends for Life, opened in 1998, is a nonprofit organization that aims to help women make life affirming choices. This organization builds friendships, establishes trust, and helps women support one another. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a drug problem in the past, and as soon as I came in here I felt really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18036"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18532,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036\/revisions\/18532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}