No Boundaries, Salvation Army have outreach program for Oklahoma City prostitutes

She sees a woman walking along the street and pulls up to her, rolling down her window.

“Hi. We just want you to know that Jesus loves you,” Briscoe says.

It's a line she uses to start up a conversation.

She's trying to break the ice and perhaps get the woman thinking about leaving the streets.

Briscoe knows what she is talking about.

She was once a homeless prostitute.

Now she is street outreach coordinator for No Boundaries, a group dedicated to helping victims of human trafficking.

The group is partnering with the Salvation Army in a program to be launched next month to offer these women counseling, shelter, job training and even hot chocolate from a canteen truck.

Lori Basey, No Boundaries president, has worked on the problem of human trafficking in the Congo and now wants to focus on south Oklahoma City.

“The stories we're hearing locally are as bad as some of the stories globally,” Basey said.

Basey said Oklahoma City's location in the center of the United States at the intersection of Interstate 40 and Interstate 35 also puts the city at a crossroads for human trafficking.

Maj. Leisa Hall, Salvation Army divisional secretary for women's ministries, said there are women who do not know there are other ways to survive.