Faith Lockwood is an incredible individual committed to the most vulnerable in society – children. Lockwood has devoted her life to often-forgotten, challenged children. These children don’t have easy-to-understand conditions. They have multiple challenges and usually suffer severe setbacks that require years of treatment and support.

Lockwood’s advocacy and service to disadvantaged children include five distinct areas of work: pregnant teens, abused children, juveniles who have committed a crime, physically and emotionally challenged children, and teenage parents. As a social worker for more than 20 years, she has been at the side of thousands of children, including children having children.

For the past seven years, Lockwood has served the mental and physical health needs of an average of 350 pregnant girls a year in middle and high schools in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Even though the need is so apparent, her position is not a funded one, so every year she has to raise funds for her program.

Lockwood is a great advocate because she has the physical, intellectual, and spiritual strength to work tirelessly for individuals and the persistence, creativity, and boldness to bring about broader change. She has created a summer work program for 15 to 17 year old mothers, recruiting the employees, the employers and sponsors, and then running the program. She was instrumental in founding the Forsyth Adolescent Health Care Coalition. She also trains pediatric residents at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, helping them understand the needs of adolescent mothers and their children.