BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. ( WKRG ) — A local non-profit that arms teenage girls with skills to avoid being trafficked and involved in domestic violence and addiction is taking its mission to the next level.
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Natalie Wynn, the Executive Director of Flourish , founded the organization for teenage girls on the Gulf Coast who may not have the basic resources needed to be successful.
“We serve Mobile and Baldwin County, and we’ve just seen so much growth,” Wynn said. “We started with one girl in our center. We had no idea if we were going to be able to reach the girls that we wanted to reach, but, our heart behind it was to create a safe place for girls to come, and since then, because of our limited space and capacity, we’ve been trying to figure out how can we reach more girls in our community.”
Now, Flourish has stepped up it’s reach in the community by teaming up with local schools.
“We started off in 2022 at Robertsdale High School,” Wynn recounted. “They reached out and asked us to start a social club where we were going once a month and helping develop the girls personally, building their confidence, teaching them about healthy relationships and just overall creating a place for them to come together and work on themselves.”