Let’s Grow In Leadership Together

Let’s Grow In Leadership Together

When I came into leadership in pregnancy center ministry, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I learned a lot quickly, mostly by trial and error! Those were hard years because I was trying to lead to the best of my ability, but I was still trying to...

Courage – The Cynthia Carter-Smallwood Story

Courage – The Cynthia Carter-Smallwood Story

This is a supplemental chapter to the book Leading for Life, by Sue Fultz, a Care Net Center Services Specialist.  Sue's book delves into the "God stories" of leaders in the pregnancy center movement.Leading for Life is now available for purchase as an ebook on Amazon...

Catching Up With the 2018 Regent Scholarship Winner

Catching Up With the 2018 Regent Scholarship Winner

  In September 2018, Care Net awarded a full tuition scholarship for Regent University to Lizzie Burton, a 19-year-old woman from Georgia who'd been a client at Options Now when pregnant with her daughter. Thanks to the scholarship, Lizzie was able to graduate from...

Come Take a Course With Me!

Come Take a Course With Me!

Joan Boydell, MA is the Instructor of Care Net's Connecting Conversations Instructor Certification course.   As I was finishing up my MA in Counseling Psychology and searching for a job in 1989, I visited a pregnancy center and was drawn by the mission and vision of...

3 Ways Pregnancy Centers are Innovating Through COVID-19

3 Ways Pregnancy Centers are Innovating Through COVID-19

  Reading is a big part of my role: nonprofit trends, news stories, state and local laws and regulations, and recently, a whole lot about COVID-19. The entire nonprofit sector is somewhat nervous right now. Most nonprofits are preparing for a significant economic...

Coronavirus Pandemic – What Pregnancy Centers Need to Know

Updated 3/27/2020 to reflect enhanced screening recommendations for all clients and center personnel and to add additional sample policies and forms.   Sample Policies and Forms - To edit these sample policies and forms, download them and edit them on your own...