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Leslie’s Place provides the resources desperately needed for women reconnecting with their lives and their loved ones:
  • Approximately 2,500 women are released yearly from the Illinois prison system. That's an average of fifty women each week starting over in the world, many of them with no place to go.

  • Eighty percent of incarcerated women are mothers of at least two children.

  • Since 1994, hundreds of women have lived at Leslie’s Place.

  • 70% have obtained employment.

  • 95% are successful recovering addicts.

  • 80% have participated in computer training.

  • 95% have participated in job readiness, parenting, and life skills workshops.

  • 95% were immediately reunited with their children at Leslie’s Place.

In the year 1983, there were only 386 women in the Illinois prison system.   Today, there are approximately 3,000, sixty percent of whom are from the Chicago area.

Winners' Circle
A few months ago, we began a program for our successful, former residents called Winners' Circle. We meet on the last Thursday of each moth. We get together for fellowship and sharing of success stories. The Winners' Circle Mission Stattement is as follos: The Winners' Circle, the "Circle of Love," comes together to share strength and hope in forging ahead to lead lives of peace, prosperity, sobriety, and forever placing God First! "To discuss and help others accomplish goals, to share resources, to stand in the gap for others through intercessory prayer, and discuss any issues of importance to the Winners".

Simonia was a resident of Leslie's Place and is a member of the Winners' Circle. she passed her Certified Alchohol Drug Counselor (CADC) exam and works as a licensed drug abuse counselor at Haymarket. She is currently attending Lewis University where she is earning her Bachelor's Degree in Human Services.

Kimberly was a resident of Leslie's Place. She recently took her GED exam and is waiting for the results. she is employed and lives in her own apartment.