I have served as a center executive director and client services director for 13 years in a small college town pregnancy resource center. Client outreach is my hearts' work, and I have returned to that role recently. A center like ours has the rural center blessings and challenges as well as an obvi...

SOCIAL MEDIA - the use of blogs, websites such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Feedburner, Blogger, and over 2000 other sources of help and distribution solutions to expand your Internet footprint. Social media has changed the face of public relations (PR). Because what the public se...

Some things change; some things stay the same. With this issue of At the Center, you'll find several noteworthy changes. First, we've added two NEW features you'll want to read. "At the College Town Center" discusses the special opportunities and challenges that running a center near a college en...

In the 1950s, if you were counseling an abortion-minded woman, you would probably appeal to her sense of morality. Abortion is illegal. Abortion kills your baby. Simply put, abortion is wrong. Much has changed in five decades. Now, abortion is not only legal, but also staunchly protected by the n...

is a complex issue and should be the focus of all our counseling at a pregnancy care center. To focus just on feelings and experience is not getting to the root of the issue with our clients, even though this is a common approach within many centers, much like we see in pop psychology. According to ...

When you are in a position of leadership, you learn one thing quickly. You become a target. People don't like your decisions; they take offense because you didn't say something quite right, or they just snipe at you. It is sad, but it is human nature. It is not that leaders should be considered a...

The answer to 'Can I get an appointment for an abortion?' is never no. The scariest phone call anyone working at a pregnancy center can receive is the one inquiring about an abortion. You know the person on the other end has only one intent and that is to find a way to get an abortion. Many pregn...

In March 2008, the Feminist Majority Foundation, a radical pro-abortion group, announced at its national conference in Washington, D.C., the hiring of a national Coordinator of the Campaign to Expose Fake Clinics who will launch a new national effort to slander and shut down the work of pro-life pre...