Carol has a Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Tennessee. She started her work at the Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky in 1996 as the Training Coordinator and later was promoted to Director of Prevention Services and then Director of Training.
Carol has experience facilitating, managing and training in the following Nurturing Parenting® Programs: Parents and Their Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers; Parents and Their School-Age Children; Parents and Adolescents; ABCs Program for Parents and Kindergarteners, and Teacher Nurturing Training.
In 1998, she received the recognition of Dr. Stephen Bavolek, principal author of Nurturing Parenting® Programs, as a Nationally Recognized Trainer/Consultant. In 2010, Carol added the recognition from Mark Perlman, author of the Nurturing Father’s Program, as a Certified Consultant and Trainer and became an authorized Stewards of Children Trainer. In 2021 Carol became one of three recognized Nurturing Parenting® Trainers for the Trainer of Trainers Program.
As a mother of two children, Carol is passionate about nurturing her family and the world around them.
