CareNet currently employs one full-time and five part-time employees:

CEO/Founding Member: Chris Russell

Director of Advancement: Margaret Cole

Administrative Assistant: Doris Collins

Nurse Manager: Ginger Cavender

Client Services: Diana Ervin

Client Services Director: Esther Mollenhour

We are governed by a Board of Directors. The center is blessed to have fifteen “in-house” volunteers who help with counseling, office work, house cleaning, and general upkeep of daily tasks. CareNet is also truly thankful for our countless prayer warriors, church liaisons, poster checkers, and other volunteers.

A Crisis Pregnancy Center is Born...

In the summer of 1992, Terry and Lynette Edmondson decided (after much prayer) that Dickson County was in desperate need of a Crisis Pregnancy Center.
A survey was conducted, announcements were made to the local community, and the response was overwhelming. It looked as if there was more than enough support to begin working on the project. It was suggested that we contact a group called Christian Action Council to obtain the necessary information and manuals on starting a CPC. A steering committee of seven members was formed and the manuals were purchased. All seemed to be moving quickly; however, God had a different time frame and the process didn’t go as smooth as expected. The Chairman of the
steering committee was suddenly given a job transfer to another state. This slowed down the time, but the vision for a CPC was still very much alive!

CPC is Reborn!

In October 1993, the Edmondson’s, along with Allen Watson and Mark Leet, decided to start the process again. Twelve people met at General Insurance Underwriters in Dickson and the group unanimously decided that CPC was definitely in God’s will for this area. The twelve formed a new steering committee and made the decision to become affiliated with CareNet, which was the former Christian Action Council. CareNet provided the training, counsel, and general support the Dickson center needed to begin providing services. In October of 1994, an official Board of Directors was established, which abolished the need for the original steering committee. The Board hired Vicki Knight as the first Executive Director of the CPC in April 1995. Lisa Holub from CareNet trained Vicki, the Board members, and 23 volunteers and on June 22, 1995, the doors were officially opened for business serving Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, Houston and Perry Counties.

	New Leadership In 1998, Chris Russell, the new Executive Director, and the current Board members realized the need to add an Abstinence Education program to the center's ministry: Thus, “Planned Purity” was born. The goal of this program would be to educate the youth of our area with the “abstinence only” message before they decide to become sexually active, or before they choose abortion as a contraceptive or answer to an unplanned pregnancy. In 1999, Chris and the Board saw the need for another outreach to be offered to the center’s clients: Post Abortion Healing.
Chris and Client Service Director Kathy Banville attended a post-abortion seminar and returned with the training and information needed to begin the H.O.P.E. (Healing Over Post-abortion Experiences) Program. In January of 2000, the Board and staff made the very important decision of changing the Crisis Pregnancy Center name to CareNet Pregnancy Services of Middle Tennessee, or more simply known as “CareNet.” The two most critical reasons for the change were: 1) The desire to join many CareNet affiliated centers across the United States and Canada to form a united force and provide a name more commonly recognized, and 2) to remove the word “crisis” and replace it with the more friendly and inviting term “care.” In September 2008, 3,700 square feet was added to the current facility. The addition gave CareNet the opportunity to add another critical service to our community, ultrasound technology. As a medical clinic they are able to diagnose pregnancy, determine the gestational age of the baby, and determine if the pregnancy is a viable intrauterine pregnancy. This answers the woman’s one burning question, “Am I pregnant?”