OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Syphilis cases are on the rise, specifically among the homeless population. Numbers from the state health department show a spike in an area of Oklahoma County.

However, a metro woman is doing what she can to help them out.

"I love you too, Mr. Ronny,” Delisa Jones said to a client on Friday as she helped him find some clothes.

Love and care are two things you can always find at Second Chances Thrift Store in northwest Oklahoma City.

"It's born from my life story,” Jones, the owner of the thrift store, said. “So, my life's journey is to help men and women who are just like me."

Jones’s life story of addiction, prison, and even being sold into sex trafficking brought her here.

For the past eight years, she’s owned the thrift store at that location off N. MacArth

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