Donate to Help Children at the Civil and Family Courts Facility

Austin Bar/AYLA Leadership Academy Class of 2021 Class Project

Dear Friends of the Austin Bar,

The Austin Bar/ AYLA Leadership Academy Class of 2021 is working on a class project. We invite you to join us in fundraising for the new Travis County Civil and Family Courts Facility that will open in 2023. Specifically, we are looking for monetary donations or books, games, and toys to supply the children’s playrooms. The Court Facility already has designs for three separate playrooms based on age groups: toddlers, kindergarteners, and elementary-aged children.

When children are at court for family or juvenile law cases, it can be scary; having playrooms where they can be entertained while they wait to see the judge does hildren's Rooms a great deal to help alleviate the anxiety and fear associated with Children's Rooms an otherwise traumatic time.

Planned children's room at the Travis County Courthouse. Plan and renderings courtesy of Gensler (lead building designer) and CGL Companies (courts designer).

You have the opportunity to instill joy in a child during the time that he or she is at the courthouse. The Leadership Academy Class has set up an Amazon Wish List with suggested items that are available for you to purchase. The Wish List can be found here: https://amzn.to/33rYCgG.

Simply choose the items from the Wish List that you’d like to donate and purchase them through Amazon. To ensure that we acknowledge donations of $100 or more, please include your name in the gift message and email your receipt to Stephanie Bloomquist at stephanie@ abloomquist.com.

Alternatively, you may make a monetary donation. Cash donations are accepted via Venmo (@AustinBar- Foundation); via check payable to Austin Bar Foundation, mailed to 712 W. 16th Street, Austin, TX 78701 with “Courthouse Children’s Playroom” in the memo line; or by credit card at austinbar. org/austin-bar-ayla-leadershipacademy.

Please note that if more funds are raised than the courthouse facilities can use for the playrooms, the excess funds will be donated to the Austin Bar Foundation.

Donations of $100+ will be recognized on the Austin Bar website and donations of $200+ will be also be recognized in Austin Lawyer magazine. Please consider donating by June 30, 2021 to help make the children’s playrooms safe and fun spaces for children at the Civil and Family Courts Facility.

The Leadership Academy Class of 2021 appreciates your support and generosity.

Sincerely,

The 2021 Austin Bar/AYLA Leadership Academy Class

Kristy Blurton, Alexa Cedillo, Eric D. Cuellar, Jillian Michelle French, Alana Goycochea, Will Hailey, Alec Herzog, Hunter Hudson, Thomas M. Just, Kiera Lee Kilday, Alan Lin, Stephanie A.H. Louie, Daniella Deseta Lyttle, Kara L. O’Shaughnessy, Daniel Olds, Maximilian Raileanu, Hannah Marie Vahl, and Mariana Lozano Villarreal AL