PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Spring is in the air and it is time to start thinking about transitions of MCA Leadership. If your region, division, or interest group has not submitted a list of your officers for 2009-2010 to Dianne Speed (diannespeed@mscounselor.org), would you please send them to her by March 10th. We are preparing for the last MCA Executive Board meeting for 2008-2009 scheduled for April 3 and want to be sure that we invite all of the incoming Presidents to attend.

The MCA call for nominations for the 2009-2010 year is out! We will be electing a President-Elect-Elect and a Secretary-Elect at the 2009 MCA Conference in November. Additional information about the job duties for each position is available at the MCA web site along with a nomination form. Please think about MCA members you know who are great leaders and nominate them for one of these important offices.

MCA 2009 Officer Nomination Form (PDF FILE)

This spring we will also be working on our MCA service project which is Crisis Pregnancy Centers. The latest available research data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics shows that teen pregnancies in the U.S. are rising. Mississippi ranks highest among the states with a teenage birth rate of 68.4 per 1,000. Every community in our state has been affected by teenage pregnancy. Many of us have worked with clients who are pregnant teens and with adults who continue to deal with decisions they made in their teenage years about an unwanted pregnancy. There are Crisis Pregnancy Centers throughout the state so you can become involved with a center in your area that provides services to the community where you live. Most services provided through the centers are free. You may donate time as a counselor to work with young women who use the centers or you can donate items such as money, baby clothes, and furniture. There is an opportunity to get involved to the level and degree you are comfortable with doing. Following this e-mail is an alphabetical list of Crisis Pregnancy Centers across the state of Mississippi. I hope you will join me in working to provide a better foundation and better choices for teens who are pregnant so that their children may have the opportunity to grow and develop into happy, productive adults!

Julia

Julia Y. Porter, President, MCA 2008-2009 jporter@meridian.msstate.edu

Sav-A-Life of Monroe Cty
PO Box 544
Amory, Mississippi 38821
662-257-9043 

Sav-A-Life
PO Box 932
Batesville, Mississippi 38606
662-578-2277

Sav-A-Life CPC
PO Box 276
Clarksdale, Mississippi
662-627-7442

Women's Resource Center
PO Box 4335/1410 Hwy 8
Cleveland, Mississippi 38732
662-843-8877

Golden Triangle Crisis Pregnancy Ctr
1909 1/2 Hwy 45N
Columbus, Mississippi
662-327-0500

Sav-A-Life, Inc
PO Box 26/806 Waldrdon St
Corinth, Mississippi
800-663-1639

Crisis Pregnancy Center
PO Box 435
Greenwood, Mississippi
601-453-5114

Morning Star Pregnancy Care Center
2204 24th Ave
Gulfport, MS 39501
228-864-4221

Women's Resource Center
9155 Lorraine Road
Gulfport, MS 39503
228-897-8958

Birthright
PO Box 13755
Jackson, Mississippi
601-371-7711

Center for Pregnancy Choices
PO Box 55664
Jackson, MS
601-713-3113

CPC of South Central Mississippi
PO Box 4044
Laurel, Mississippi 39459
601-428-4357

Crisis Pregnancy Center of WBA
PO Box 867
Louisville, Mississippi 39339
662-779-1110

Hope Resource Center
820 Manila Street
Lucedale, MS 39452
601-766-9214

CPC of South West Mississippi
PO Box 1655
McComb, Mississippi 39649
601-684-3988

Center for Pregnancy Choices
PO Box 3301
Meridian, Mississippi 39303
601-482-1230

Center for Pregnancy Choices
P.O. Box 344
Monticello, Mississippi 39654
601- 587-8008

Pregnancy Resources of Mississippi
PO Box 1785
Ocean Springs, Mississippi 39566
228-875-1230

Pregnancy Test Center
PO Box 1193/Old Hwy 7 N
Oxford, Mississippi 38655
662-234-4414

Pregnancy Crisis Center
3512 Magnolia St
Pascagoula, Mississippi 39567-3113
228-769-8151

Center for Pregnancy Choices
3627 Hwy 80 E
Pearl, Mississippi 39208
601-939-9009

CPC of East Central Mississippi
PO Box 251
Philadelphia, Mississippi 39350
601-656-9712

Pregnancy Support Services
PO Box 1359/1101 Goodyear Blvd
Picayune, Mississippi 39466
888-812-5640

CARE Pregnancy Resource Center
1277 Main St (Stateline Rd)
Southaven, Mississippi
662-280-1202

Golden Triangle CPC
102 Old West Point Rd
Starkville, Mississippi
662-323-1700

New Beginnings of Tupelo
1445 E Main St
Tupelo, Mississippi 38802
601-842-6752

Sav-A-Life of Tupelo, Inc
100 Parkgate Dr Ext, Ste A-1C
Tupelo, MS 38801
662-841-1517

Center for Pregnancy Choices
1905 Mission 66, Ste 1, PO Box 8008
Vicksburg, Mississippi 39181
601-638-2778