Passionate about serving girls and women who have experienced victimization through exploitation and sex trafficking, Liz Liles is investing her life in serving and empowering survivors to find hope for their lives and freedom for their futures. Liz founded Daughters of Worth, a non-profit organization, to provide trauma-informed, comprehensive services for girls and women who are victims of violence, specifically human trafficking. Through prevention education, safety planning, assisting with safe exits, documentation recovery, case management, advocacy, emergency support, relocation services, care coordination, and trauma-informed mental health services, Daughters of Worth directly assists survivors of trafficking in courageously exiting their traffickers and finding the support and services they need to heal and begin their new journey in life. In addition to providing direct services, Daughters of Worth serves more than 500 girls (elementary to high school) in three counties through prevention education empowerment sessions. Additional outreach measures of the organization include jail outreach and the operation of a drop-in center to provide a safe refuge for survivors throughout the day. 

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Liz Liles holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from East Carolina University, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate, and is a NC Victim’s Services Practitioner. In addition, she holds an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Duke University. Liz is a member of the Pitt County Coalition Against Human Trafficking, serves on the Pitt County Trafficking
Multi-Disciplinary Team, is a member of the Beaufort County Behavioral Health Task Force, and also a member of the Beaufort County Domestic Violence Prevention Task Force.

She has been a part of the life-changing work of philanthropy for twenty years and lives each day with a heart to bring a voice to the voiceless and to impact change where it is most needed, so that all people have the opportunity to succeed and thrive! In 2020, Liz was awarded the Best
Irons Humanitarian Award by the Human Relations Council of Greenville. Daughters of Worth was also the recipient of the 2020 Excellence in Nonprofits Award from the NC Community Foundation of the East.

 

It is the prayer of Liz Liles that her every breath will be used to bring hope, healing, and freedom to others.