Carolyn Potter is Helping Women to Gain a New Life

Carolyn Potter is the Chief Executive Officer of The WellHouse.

Our Purpose:

We provide residential, therapeutic programs to female victims of human trafficking who have been sexually exploited, offering medical, spiritual, mental, and emotional care. We welcome women and girls of all ages, and mothers with their children. Regardless of race, color, creed, or religion, survivors in pain can be assured they will find love and acceptance at The WellHouse.

Our Services:

We offer emergency-, short-, and long-term restoration programs to female victims of human trafficking.

Our Story:

The WellHouse began when a survivor of human trafficking determined that there needed to be a place of safety and trust for victims not yet rescued. Her outreach, and that of others, to women in the Woodlawn area, close to the I-20 corridor, led her to realize that there were no shelters solely for trafficked victims. She then conceived the idea of a home with no prerequisites or requirements that often hinder victims from obtaining needed assistance. 

 The WellHouse was born from this vision.

We are a 24-hour shelter offering immediate assistance to trafficked women who are rescued from anywhere in the United States. Entry requirements to programs, such as a state identification, proof of homelessness and a birth certificate, can undermine a woman’s access to an immediate, safe environment; therefore, these have been eliminated. We welcome victim survivors who desire help and who want to move toward becoming Overcomers! There is nothing lacking at The WellHouse that would hinder success, and there is everything to gain for a life that was once hopeless!

The WellHouse Name:

The name, The WellHouse, is taken from The Bible’s story of the Samaritan woman at the well, because we are a “a place where women never have to thirst again, ” - John 4:11-15.

“A place where women never have to thirst again.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where can you get this living

water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his flocks and herds?”

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him

a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

The WellHouse website: the-wellhouse.org

Carolyn Potter’s LinkedIn Profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-potter-820a2b52/