Carl Perkins Center Expands Services to include Relative Caregiver Program

The Exchange Club-Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Haywood County not only helps children; it offers help for families, too. Through a new Relative Caregiver Program, family members who have primary care and control of a child through informal arrangements or through legal custody or guardianship are now being offered services previously not available. The caregiver must be related to the child by blood, marriage or adoption to qualify.

Services offered include short-term case management, parent education, support groups for children and for caregivers, educational workshops, emergency financial assistance and recreational activities.

Support groups meet from 10:00 to 11 a.m. on the second Tuesday of every month at the Carl Perkins Center in Brownsville. Call Pauletta Miller or Linda Burns, 772-8378, for more information.