The Caring Center Inc

Our goals are to attract and serve women who are at-risk for choosing abortion and to see them choose to carry their babies to term.

To develop and maintain accurate and relevant services to women at-risk for choosing abortion in an organizational environment made up of three main department (e.g. Patient Resources, Medical Services and Advancement) led by content expert professionals who each assemble teams (paid and volunteer) for the purpose of accomplishing the mission as it relates to their respective departments.

Our linear service process allows us to serve patients in a consistent and relevant manner that begins at the time they schedule an appointment and continues throughout their pregnancies. We have staff and volunteers trained to educate our patients on all of their options as well as 4 nurses trained in limited obstetrical ultrasound. Our Resource Coordinator is able to connect patients with resources in the community and to help them apply for Medicaid, if needed. The Baby and Me Program, where we walk through the pregnancy with a patient, allows us to prepare them for parenting or to make an adoption plan.

Our Advancement Department conducts monthly tours of our facility in an effort to identify people who are passionate about our mission and who may be interested in giving their time and/or talent. Those who are interested are cultivated and then asked to support us by making a multi-year, monthly gift. We do several fundraisers each year that supply that part of our budget not covered by individual donations, church donation or grants.

In 2018 we performed 310 pregnancy tests and 86% were positive. Ninety-seven percent of those patients who had a positive test were assessed as abortion-vulnerable, abortion- minded or abortion-determined. Seventy-seven percent of our at-risk patients chose to carry their babies to term.

Forty-seven percent of our income in 2018 came from fundraising. We are slowly making progress in accomplishing our goal of sustainable funding, but there is much work to be done.