Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler made a visit to a special home in Bartlett, Tennessee, Monday. He was there for the opening off Janie’s House. Tyler collaborated with Memphis-based Youth Villages on the effort, which will care for abused and neglected girls.

The home, only the second of its kind in the country, took its name from the title of an Aerosmith song Tyler wrote in the ’80s, “Janie’s Got a Gun.” His foundation, Janie’s Fund, which has so far raised some $4 million, took on the $500,000 project to offer a safe space for abused and/or neglected girls in the Memphis area. The first Janie’s House opened in Atlanta in 2017.

The facility can house up to 14 girls at a time and is expected to serve about 30 girls a year, providing access to both medical and therapeutic services to help formerly abused girls lead normal, healthy lives.

The walls of the residence are covered in Aerosmith quotes and music notes. And instead of a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening, Tyler cut some of his trademark scarves.

“This does my heart and my soul good,” Tyler said of Janie’s House, which he called “a dream come true.”

A resident of Janie’s House said the residence offers group sessions in which the girls address anger issues or work to identify values and goals.

Tyler said he realized he had to do something when he was in a treatment center and learned at least 90 percent of the girls there had been victims of physical, mental, sexual or verbal abuse.