Dr. Lee maintains a 70% to 80% success rate with her life-changing work that mobilizes children from prostitution to a successful adult life. Children of the Night graduates go on to become Homeland Security, teachers, bankers, social workers, firefighters, and other professionals.
Throughout the years, Children of the Night has gained the reputation as one of the most prominent and successful organizations in the world addressing the needs of America’s sex trafficked children.
Dr. Lois Lee’s pioneering work with child sex trafficking victims has blazed the trail for academics, researchers, law enforcement, social service providers and legislators across the globe.
As a result of her efforts, police now treat America’s child prostitutes as victims instead of criminals, and juvenile courts divert them to shelters, foster homes and treatment programs rather than detention.
Congress and State legislators have developed tough laws against pimping and pandering and the customers who pay children for sex. Additionally, sex trafficking task forces have been created across the country.
Lee has received countless awards for her groundbreaking work, most notably the prestigious President’s Volunteer Action Award, presented to her by President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1984.
She also received the 1994 National Caring Award, and her portrait hangs in the Frederick Douglass Museum and Hall of Fame for Caring Americans in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Lee has been profiled on national television including CBS 60 Minutes and her life was portrayed in a 1985 CBS Movie of the Week entitled “Children of the Night.”.
In 1989, she was lauded by rock musician/songwriter Richard Marx in his song entitled “Children of the Night” which appeared on his 1989 “Repeat Offender” album and proceeds were donated to help build Children of the Night’s world-class 24 bed shelter home and school.
Dr. Lee’s trainings and program materials are in high demand worldwide by organizations attempting to stabilize their programs and grow. Diplomats come from all over the world to see Dr. Lee’s work firsthand and to learn from her in their efforts to help sex trafficked children in their homelands.
Japan, Romania, Mexico and Canada have sponsored her visits to assist in developing similar programs and to teach law enforcement in those countries how to intervene in the lives of child sex trafficking victims.
Christian organizations worldwide come to Lee for help setting up similar shelter homes, and she guides them in developing case management, staffing, educational programs and fundraising. Most important, she assists them with the grueling task of obtaining licensing from their governments, which are sometimes resistant to this kind of charitable work.
In 2013 and 2014 Dr. Lois Lee was a speaker and presenter to Interpol’s Annual Global Trafficking in Human Beings conference. She continues to evaluate protocols and policies worldwide to replicate the treatment of prostitution as a social problem as distinguished from a law enforcement problem.
Dr. Lee has been honored at Carnegie Hall Stern/Perelman Auditorium by Music for Life (2011), she was a presenter at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art for David Lynch’s Second Annual Gala Benefit “Change Begins Within” (2011), received the Children’s Friend Award from Childhelp (2010), received the Women’s Achievement Award from the Dashew International Center for Students and Scholars at UCLA (2002), the “Award of Appreciation” from The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (1995) and the Father Baker award for Service to Youth, National Award (1990) and countless others..
Decades of films, news, talk shows, print media and photos of Dr. Lois Lee’s 40 years of work continue to be archived for exhibits and permanent placement in museums and other sites.
Over the last four decades, Dr. Lee has raised over $50 million in private donations to support her programs.
