Our Strategic Partner
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Corporate Information
The Cumberland County Children's Center, Inc
Our Board of Directors
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Barry Wagner, M.D Vice-President
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I was born and raised in Cumberland County. I graduated from Cumberland County High School in 1991.
I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Tennessee Tech in 1995. I attended law school at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and graduated and received my law license in 1998. I have been employed with the law firm of Colvard, York & Ramsey since 1992 (I
started as a receptionist, then secretary, then law clerk, and finally attorney).
My son, Taylor, was born in 1990, so I was a single mother throughout my senior year of high school and all of college and law school.
The majority of my practice is family law, juvenile law and Social Security.
I do a lot of work as guardian ad litem in DCS cases, and I have been a member of the Foster Care Review Board since 1998. Through my work and raising my own son, I have seen how important it is to our future that children are raised in safe, healthy and loving homes.
A lot of the children that I see in juvenile court on unruly or delinquent charges have
actually been dependent and neglected children whose family-life dilemmas have simply gone unrecognized for too long. In order to receive the services that could greatly benefit these families - such as parenting classes, counseling, alcohol/drug assessement and treatment, in-home support services, job training, mentors, etc. - the families' needs must first be recognized. The sooner a family's needs are recognized, the more likely the chances are of keeping the family intact while services are provided. In situations where children have to be removed from their family due to abuse and/or neglect, such as the dangerous living conditions resulting from the production and/or use of methamphetamine, they are
sometimes relieved, but most of the time they are very frightened and want nothing more than to return to their families despite the harmful environment.
The House of Hope finally brings to life the ideal solutions
to these problems faced by families and children. Having a centralized
location for family support information and services will increase their
availability and use by families who may have been discouraged from seeking
help in the past simply due to confusion of where to start or who to ask for
help. For children who have been displaced from their homes due to abuse
and/or neglect, they will no longer find themselves being bounced from
hospital to police station to DCS office at the outset of what is usually
already a very traumatic point in their lives. Instead, they will go to a
house, a house of hope, where their immediate medical, housing, and other
needs are evaluated and decisions can be made for their placement.
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Pastor Linus Vaughn President
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Mike Steinmann Executive Director
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPT.
BEGAN LAW ENFORCEMENT IN 1978.
SPECIAL TRAINING IN CRIME PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY POLICING.
DRUG ABUSE ANALYSIS TRAINING.
CERTIFIED ADVANCED CRIME PREVENTION SPECIALIST.
COUNTERDRUG TASK FORCE TRAINING .. METHAMPHETAMINE LEVEL 1 & 2.
CHMN., CUMBERLAND COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPT. INMATE DISCIPLINARY HEARING REVIEW BOARD.
PRESIDENT, SALVATION ARMY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
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