What We Do

We provide free and confidential pregnancy services and support to anyone facing an unexpected pregnancy. We understand how overwhelming this moment can feel, and we’re here to walk alongside them with compassion, respect, and care, no matter what they’re going through. Services designed to support women facing unexpected pregnancies with care and compassion. These services include:

• Pregnancy Testing – Lab-quality, self-administered pregnancy tests 5 days a week and through our partners at CT Mobile on Mondays and Thursdays. These tests confirm pregnancy with accuracy and immediacy.
• Ultrasound Services – Limited obstetric ultrasounds through our partners at CT Mobile to determine gestational age, viability, and pregnancy location. Available on Mondays and Thursdays only.
• Options Counseling – One-on-one conversations to help women understand all their pregnancy options in a supportive, judgment-free setting.
• Resource Referrals – Personalized connections to local support services for medical care, housing, material needs, and more.

At Carolyn’s Place, we offer education to help equip new parents with the knowledge and material resources they need. Our services include:

• Earn While You Learn – Through this program, participants earn essential baby items like diapers, clothing, and other material aid as they complete educational lessons on parenting, pregnancy, and life skills.
• Online Parenting Classes – Carolyn’s Place empowers new and expectant parents with practical knowledge and emotional support—all from the comfort of home.

Your generous support ensures women receive timely, compassionate care at a moment when it matters most. Because of you, our education programs can offer parents a hand up as they prepare for a brighter future.

Women deserve to feel safe, heard, and informed. Our offices are here to support them confidentially, compassionately, and free of charge. Help us support women in our communities.

The Story of Carolyn Marie

On the evening of November 4, 1991, Rev. Robert Rousseau, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Watertown, Connecticut, was leaving a meeting in the church hall. As he walked into the dark parking lot, he decided to return inside and turn on the outside lights for the women who would be leaving their meeting shortly. He walked back through the dark church entryway and flipped the switch for the parking lot lights. As he walked past the entryway for the third time, Father recalls, “I was just about to leave when I heard a cry.”

Startled, he looked down and saw a shaft of light hitting a box in the corner, and he spotted a little foot inside. “I didn’t know if it was a doll or a baby at first. There was just that cry in the darkness. I bent over and saw it really was a baby, wrapped in a blue T-shirt.” Fr. Rousseau recalls, “It was as if God poked her and said, ‘Let yourself be known.’ She wasn’t crying. She just let out that one cry that got my attention. If I hadn’t gone in to turn on the lights, I wouldn’t have found her. And if she hadn’t cried out, I would have been out the door.”

Fr. Rousseau had one of the women at the meeting downstairs, whom he knew was a nurse, come upstairs to help while someone called 911. The baby was no more than three hours old. She was taken to Waterbury Hospital by the emergency team.

Fr. Rousseau suggested they give the foundling child a name. Because November 4 is the feast of St. Charles Borromeo, he called her Carolyn, and he gave her the middle name Marie for our Blessed Mother. Father could scarcely imagine how afraid and alone the mother must have felt, but how courageous she was to choose life for her child and place her in a safe surrounding where she would be found.

Carolyn Marie was adopted confidentially, but her story did not end there. With the prayers and hard work of a core group of parishioners, one year later, Carolyn’s Place, Inc. opened its doors, in order that “No woman should face pregnancy alone.”