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The Center combines a professional staff with trained volunteers to provide quality services to children and their families.

10/27/2026

Union Day of Service is always a great day! We appreciate them all! Special shout out to Letters in Motion and kappa Delta!

10/19/2026

In 1979, Carl Perkins saw a newspaper photograph of a child who had died from abuse in West Tennessee. The face reminded him of one of his own children. By the time he read the story, there was nothing he could do for the child in the picture. He contacted his friend Henry Harrison. In Jackson, where Perkins lived, the local Exchange Club was already considering how to address child abuse. The singer brought something the project needed: people who would answer his call, and an audience willing to buy a ticket.
Harrison became the center’s first president. Perkins helped bring the Statler Brothers into the effort. Their concert raised $33,000. Combined with a $26,000 grant, it financed the center’s first year. In October 1981, the Exchange Club–Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse opened in a room on an old university campus. Its first home was a former dormitory room.
For a musician accustomed to measuring an evening by the response from a crowd, this work required a different kind of patience. Opening the door created an obligation to keep it open. Families would need help after the concert money had been spent. In 1982, Perkins and local broadcaster Cousin Tuny hosted the first Circles of Hope Telethon. Fundraising became recurring work.
His name remained attached to the center while its staff took on the less visible responsibilities: responding to crises, supporting children, and helping parents learn safer ways to care for them. Perkins died in 1998. The work continued. Among the testimonials the center later published was a letter from a woman who had encountered its services as a twelve-year-old in 1988.
She had never met the musician whose name was on the building. She knew his records, but the connection between his life and hers had happened somewhere entirely different. That is where this part of Carl Perkins’s story leads: beyond the people who can identify his guitar playing, to someone who needed help as a child and found his name on the place providing it.

▶️ Enjoy the song in the 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 👇

08/16/2026

The 43rd Annual Circles of Hope Telethon is today. If you feel led we would love for you to partner with us and make a donation to
Madison County (or whatever West TN county you reside for my out of county friends).

The dollars stay here in our county to help us provide services to families here, all at no cost to them. Please consider giving, and thank you Madison County for always supporting and making sure we are able to serve these children and families in our community! Just click the link below and select Madison County!

https://www.carlperkinscenter.org/events/events/circles-of-hope-telethon

08/15/2026

Tomorrow is the day.

Tomorrow, our community comes together for the 43rd Annual Circles of Hope Telethon.

Every story shared, every performance, every donation, and every volunteer helps children and families find hope.

Thank you for being part of something bigger than all of us. We’ll see you tomorrow.

🌸Donate, watch, and share: tinyurl.com/HopeBloomsHere

08/15/2026

Hope is a team effort.

The work of the Carl Perkins Center reaches across West Tennessee because of the incredible people who show up every day in each of our communities.

To every county, center, staff member, volunteer, supporter, and community partner who makes this mission possible: thank you! Every hand extended, every child supported, and every family encouraged helps hole and healing, continue to bloom.

We may serve different communities, but we share one mission. Together, we're creating brighter, safer futures, for children across West Tennessee.

Healing Blooms Here, and it takes all of us!

08/15/2026

Healing isn’t instant.

It grows.

One conversation.
One family.
One child.
One act of kindness at a time.

Because of your generosity, children across West Tennessee receive the support they need to begin healing.

Thank you for helping hope bloom.

07/31/2026

07/24/2026

07/08/2026

This week is National Forensic Interviewers Week!

In Tennessee, more than 50 specially trained Forensic Interviewers serve youth every day in Child Advocacy Centers. These dedicated professionals provide a safe, child-friendly, and compassionate space where young people can share some of the most difficult experiences of their lives. Through patience, expertise, and trauma-informed care, Forensic Interviewers help children take the first steps toward healing, hope, and justice.

We are grateful for their work! 💙 our love to our Carl Perkins CAC interviewers: Lisa Schmidt, Charli Rice, Ary Bell, Katelyn Nilsson, Shanon Springfield, and Hannah Robinson!!

07/03/2026

In observance of Independence Day, all Carl Perkins Center offices will be closed on July 3rd.

As we celebrate our nation's independence, we wish everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday with family and friends. Our offices will resume normal business hours on Monday, July 6th.

Address

178 Airways Boulevard
Jackson, TN
38301

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+17314247900

Website

https://carlperkinscenter.org/get-involved/what-to-donate/donate-now/

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