Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties

12/12/2025

🌟 Celebrating Our Incredible MDT Partners 🌟

This week, the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties gathered for our annual Staff and Board Lunch to honor our Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Partners who are so vital to our mission. Over a delicious meal, we celebrated another year of collaboration in bringing hope and healing to children and families affected by abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, trauma, and trafficking.

💡 Who are our MDT Partners?
Our MDT Partners include a highly specialized group of professionals: law enforcement, child protective services, medical providers, prosecutors, and therapeutic experts. Together, they work with the CAC to ensure a coordinated, compassionate response to crimes against children.

💡 Why is it important?
This collaborative approach ensures that every child receives the care, protection, and support they deserve while reducing trauma throughout the investigative process. As a neutral, independent non-profit organization, the Children's Advocacy Center plays a critical role in these efforts. In fact, Texas law mandates that law enforcement utilize the Children's Advocacy Centers in their jurisdiction for the intervention and investigation of crimes against children.

When you support the Children’s Advocacy Center, you’re also directly supporting the efforts of our local law enforcement and other MDT Partners as they work tirelessly to protect the most vulnerable members of our community. Here's to another year of teamwork, partnership, and brighter futures for the children in our community. 💛

12/10/2025

Help the CAC fill our pantry! Part of our Season of Giving includes ensuring the families we serve have enough food over the holidays. With a recent increase in food insecurity, our shelves are unseasonably bare. Please consider donating pantry staples to the Children's Advocacy Center via our Amazon Wish List!

Here are a few of the items we're needing: shelf-stable and ready-to-make meals like soups, pasta with sauce, and stews, canned meat; like chicken and tuna, packaged side dishes; like potato dishes, rice dishes, Hamburger Helper, macaroni and cheese/shells and cheese, kid-friendly snacks; like cookies, crackers, granola bars, Pop Tarts, graham crackers, fruit snacks, fruit cups, apple and fruit sauces, variety packs of chips and cereals, peanut butter and jelly, whole boxes of cereal, oatmeal, and drinks, like Gatorade, Capri-Sun and juice boxes.

Another way to help is by hosting a drive, at your place of business, church, community group, or private holiday gathering! Visit our wish list here: https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/106QSZZLJ8V4U or connect with our team here via DM or at info@CACBastrop.com for more details. Thanks so much for your support!

12/09/2025

We're sending heartfelt thanks to Wild Child Bastrop for opening their doors to the children we serve at the CAC! Part of recovery from abuse and building resilience is having fun and feeling like kids again. It's a critical component in the therapeutic process, and is a big part of our trauma-informed care. By letting the children we serve utilize their intentional play and growth space, Wild Child is giving the gift of childhood. We're so grateful for this support!

🎁 This Giving Tuesday, We’re Giving Back to the Kids Who Need It Most.

Wild Child is proud to announce our new partnership with the Children’s Advocacy Center and CASA

Starting today, any child in their care can enjoy Wild Child’s services completely FREE.

Kids in crisis carry more than most of us will ever understand. These incredible organizations support them through the hardest moments! But in the middle of the court dates, casework, transition and crises… it’s easy to forget that they’re still kids…

They need to play.
They need to laugh.
They need to feel like kids again.

Wild Child is here to be that space.

We are here to give back.
We are here for them.

If you know a child supported by CAC or CASA, please share this with their caregivers. Our doors and our hearts are open. ❤️

12/08/2025

If you or people you know are facing food insecurity, Bastrop County Cares will be hosting food distribution sites in Bastrop County this month, including the cities of Elgin, Bastrop, Smithville and Cedar Creek. Details are below. Please spread the word!

12/05/2025

Thank you to the students of Bastrop ISD Colorado River Collegiate Academy for their community-wide food drive, benefiting the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties! We're just amazed!

This is just a small sampling of the food items and CRCA students who donated to Project Plenty supporting the Children's Advocacy Center. We always want to support the organizations who are doing fantastic work in our community.

12/05/2025

24 Wish Lists Left! Let's go!

We're in the final stretch of making the holidays merry and bright for the children we serve at the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties. There are still 24 children who've carefully written holiday wish lists for the items they're dreaming of waking up to on Christmas morning. You can make this possible.

An 8 year old girl wishes for some new clothes, a new pair of shoes, art supplies, a doll and some bracelets. A 10 year old boy would like a gaming headset and an Xbox controller. These small things mean everything to a kid who is going through a lot.

Child abuse can leave us feeling powerless, but giving a child who is recovering from abuse a dream-come-true Christmas helps to build precious memories, and happiness is healing. Please consider selecting a wish list this weekend, and sharing the bounty of the season with a child right here at home. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4BA8A92CA3F4CF8-60306312-holly #/

12/04/2025

Here's a quick way to make a difference right now! The Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties is working hard to give 206 kids a new coat this Christmas, and need your help. Our Amazon Wish List has a variety of warm, cozy coats for the kids we serve, with the size and color already selected. If you have a cart going, please consider adding a coat for kid in our community. Please also share this with your own circle to get the word out. To visit our wish list, scan the code below our click here: https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/PVZECC3CLS9T Thanks for your support!

12/03/2025

If you or someone you know are facing food insecurity, the Central Texas Food Bank will be operating their Mobile Food Pantry in Bastrop, Lee and Fayette Counties in the coming days. This is a drive-thru food distribution, and on a first-come, first-served basis. Locations are times are as follows:

Thursday, December 4th 9:00 - 10:30 AM
KC Hall 655 W US Highway 79 Rockdale, TX 76567

Saturday, December 6th 9:00 - 10:30 AM
CCMS 125 Voss Pkwy Cedar Creek, TX 78612

Saturday, December 6th 9:00 - 10:30 AM
ACC Elgin Campus 1501 US-290. Elgin, TX 78621

Wednesday, December 10th 10:00 - 11:00 AM
St John Catholic Church 209 East Bell St. Fayetteville, TX 78940

Follow Central Texas Food Bank above for additional distribution dates. Please share to get the word out!

11/29/2025

It's back! Bastrop’s most anticipated gala returns, brighter, bolder, and more colorful than ever. Step into Clovers, Clutches & Cocktails: Bastrop County Designer Purse Bingo 2026, where spring glamour, good luck, and high energy bingo collide in one unforgettable afternoon. Get ready to sip, shimmer and score the designer handbag of your dreams! It's the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties' biggest yet, and we can't wait to host you! Tables and tickets are available now at https://secure.qgiv.com/event/bastroppursebingo2026?blm_aid=9447425

11/28/2025

As many of us head out today for Black Friday sales, we invite you to take something meaningful along with you. Our Holly Jolly program still has 60 children in need of a sponsor. Each list represents a child in the care of the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties who has been through a very hard year and could use a little comfort and joy this season.

Choosing a list is simple, but the impact is profound. You become the person who makes Christmas morning feel warm and magical for a child who needs it most. Every gift you purchase tells them that their community cares about their well-being and believes in their future.

If you are able, please consider selecting a list today. It is one of the most powerful ways to support the children we serve. Sign up for a list here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4BA8A92CA3F4CF8-60306312-holly #/ Learn more about our Season of Giving here: https://www.childrensadvocacycenter.org/hollyjolly

11/27/2025

Today we pause in gratitude for the people who make our work possible. At the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties, every day begins with a shared commitment to protecting children, supporting families, and strengthening the systems that keep our communities safe.

We are grateful for our staff, who show up with skill, compassion, and determination in some of the hardest moments a child or family may ever face. We are grateful for our board of directors, whose leadership and steady guidance allow us to grow, adapt, and carry this mission forward. We are grateful for the volunteers who give their time, energy, and care to help families feel supported and valued. We are grateful for our law enforcement partners, child protective service workers, prosecutors, and medical professionals who walk with us in this coordinated response. And we are deeply grateful for our community, whose generosity and belief in our work keep this lifeline strong.

Because of you, children in crisis receive the care they need. Families find hope. Healing becomes possible.

Thank you for standing with us. From all of us at the Children’s Advocacy Center, we wish you a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving.

11/24/2025

Our Santa Sack Wish Lists are live!

Every holiday season, the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties provides many of the children we serve with a Santa Sack. Each one is packed with care and filled with a new coat, gloves, a warm hat, a blanket, and winter essentials that help them stay safe and snug.

These arrive just in time for the shift in the seasons and help ease the strain on holiday budgets for families and caregivers who are already facing so much.

It's Thanksgiving Week, and Black Friday sales are in full swing. While you are shopping for your own loved ones, we are asking you to take a moment to visit the CAC’s Amazon Wish Lists.

Pick out a coat. Choose a blanket. Grab some socks or a few pantry staples. Place an item or two in your cart and know that you are supporting a child in your own community who is recovering from abuse and trauma.

This is one of the simplest and most meaningful ways to give this season. Every item makes a difference. Thank you for showing up in this small but mighty way.

Santa Sacks: https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/PVZECC3CLS9T?ref_=gr_landing_saved_holiday

Fill the CAC Pantry: https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/106QSZZLJ8V4U?ref_=gr_landing_saved_holiday