A former Carter County Head Start program employee has been indicted on a theft charge after investigators say she used the program’s credit cards to purchase thousands of dollars worth of personal items. Head Start is a program for low-income families and their children.According to a release from the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, Joyce Parsons is a former administrative assistant for Carter County’s Head Start who has admitted to stealing more than 8-thousand dollars and signing other worker’s names to the receipts to hide her spending in 2020.