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

11/03/2025

🧡 Help Us Share Thanksgiving with Local Families in Need 🧡

This Thanksgiving, the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties, is partnering with our wonderful community to bring a complete holiday meal to families affected by child abuse and trauma. Each meal provided offers these families a comforting and joyful holiday season.

We’re accepting full Thanksgiving meal donations NOW through November 24th! Meals include:

🧡 A turkey or ham
🧡 2-4 traditional side dishes like stuffing, vegetables, casseroles, and mashed potatoes with gravy
🧡 Fresh or frozen bread
🧡 A dessert
🧡 Pantry staples for preparation, such as foil pans, butter, vegetable oil, eggs, and milk

If you’d prefer, you can also make a cash donation, and the CAC staff will do the shopping to make sure each family’s table is filled.

Together, let’s share the warmth of the season with families who need it most. Your generosity will make their holiday bright and give them a reason to celebrate. ❤️

Here's how you, your circle, organization, office, club or group can help!

👉 Sign Up Now! https://www.childrensadvocacycenter.org/hollyjolly
👉 Connect with our team: info@CACbastrop.org or DM here
👉 Make a donation: https://www.childrensadvocacycenter.org/donate
👉 SHARE THIS POST! Please help get the word out by sharing this post with your community!

Thank you for helping to make the holidays merry and bright for the children and families we serve! 🍁

11/01/2025

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

At the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties, the holidays are a time to surround children and families with care, compassion, and community. Throughout our Holly Jolly Season of Giving, we join forces with businesses and the community to provide meaningful support to families who are rebuilding after trauma, offering warmth, joy, and relief when it’s needed most.

With your help, we’re providing Thanksgiving meals, warm winter clothing, food assistance, and Christmas gifts for children across Bastrop, Lee, and Fayette Counties. Each act of generosity, each meal, coat, or toy, helps restore a sense of joy, stability, and hope.

This year’s Holly Jolly efforts include:
- Thanksgiving Meals - full meal kits for families, including turkey, shelf-stable sides, bread, and pie
- It's In The Bag! - 150+ Santa Sacks filled with coats, winter essentials, and warm clothing
- Holly Jolly Family Sponsorships - gift and meal sponsorship for individual children or whole families
- Winter Season Food Assistance - shelf-stable food and kid-friendly snacks to provide food security this season
- Volunteer Opportunities - from gift wrapping to Santa Sack stuffing to donation organizing
- Amazon Wish Lists - pre-selected items that go directly to families in need
- We’ll Shop for You - cash donations accepted so our team can purchase exactly what’s needed

Helping kids feel like kids again is at the heart of what we do. A joyful holiday season can bring comfort, connection, and healing, especially for families who have endured the crisis of abuse.

There are so many ways to help. You can sponsor a child, donate a holiday meal, shop from our wish lists, host a drive, or volunteer to wrap and organize gifts.

If you want to be part of what’s happening right now - part of the work that makes this season brighter for children right here in our community - sign up for our Holly Jolly updates. We’ll send you ways to get involved, donate, or volunteer throughout the season. https://www.childrensadvocacycenter.org/holly-jolly-email-signup

Let’s make this a season full of comfort, care, and childhood joy.

10/29/2025

LAST CALL FOR PICKLEBALL!

Attention Pickleball Pros and your Pickleball Posses: Time to lace up your court shoes and mark your calendars!

The Loblolly Classic - Pickleball in the Pines is coming up November 8–9, 9 AM to 6 PM, at the Bastrop Area Pickleball Association courts.

Join us for two full days of fierce volleys, friendly rivalries, and crisp fall air under the Lost Pines - all to benefit the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties!

It's time to serve, smash, and support!

- Men’s, Women’s & Mixed Doubles
- Divisions: All Ages, 40+, 60+
- Raffles stacked with gear from Joola, Selkirk, and Bread & Butter

Your participation helps provide hope and healing to children and families affected by abuse and trauma right in our community. Click here to register: https://pickleballtournaments.com/tournaments/lob-lolly-classic-benefiting-the-childrens-advocacy-center-austin-area

Special thanks to Double R Pickleball for sponsoring and coordinating this event! Want to see your name where the action is? Become a sponsor today by clicking here:https://www.childrensadvocacycenter.org/s/Loblolly-Classic-Sponsorship-Form-Digital.pdf

Pickleball Tournament in Bastrop. Register at PickleballTournaments.com

10/27/2025

Superheroes in Action! 💛

On Monday, October 13th, our friends from A+ Federal Credit Union and First National Bank brought heart, hustle, and helping hands to the Children’s Advocacy Center, dedicating their time and talent to two projects that had long been on our wishlist.

As part of their ongoing commitment as a Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties Hero For Hope, the team from A+ Federal Credit Union rolled up their sleeves and tackled a major task - pulling, organizing, and restocking our full inventory of winter essentials for the Holly Jolly Program. Thanks to them, we’re ready to bring warmth and joy to dozens of children and families this holiday season.

Then, together with staff from First National Bank and our own Family Advocacy team, they helped create something truly special - a bright, empowering Superpower Wall mural designed just for the brave children we serve. This interactive installation has been a long-standing dream of our Advocacy team, and seeing it come to life was a powerful moment.

We’re so grateful to A+ Federal Credit Union and First National Bank of Bastrop for the care they show our community, and for their generosity, compassion, and belief in the work we do every day.

10/22/2025

Big thanks to Community Impact for featuring the upcoming Loblolly Classic - Pickleball in the Pines, hosted by Double R Pickleball and benefiting the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties! The Lob-Lolly Classic is coming up on Saturday and Sunday, November 8-9, at Bastrop Area Pickleball Association, and there's still time to register! Round up your Pickleball Posse and serve up some fun while investing in the future of our community. Visit https://pickleballtournaments.com/tournaments/lob-lolly-classic-benefiting-the-childrens-advocacy-center-austin-area to sign up!

Pickleball players will hit the courts in Bastrop as part of a collective effort to help children heal—one paddle, one point and one purpose at a time.

10/15/2025

🌲 Become a Sponsor: Loblolly Classic - Pickleball in the Pines
November 8–9 | 9 AM–6 PM | Bastrop Area Pickleball Association

It’s almost time to paddle up under the pines. The Lob-lolly Classic is a two-day pickleball throwdown with Men’s, Women’s, and Mixed Doubles, competitive divisions for All Ages, 40+, and 60+, and a whole lot of fall fun.

Hosted by Double R Pickleball and nestled in the shade of the Lost Pines, this spirited autumn tournament benefits the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties. We’re grateful to the Bastrop Area Pickleball Association for donating the venue for this event.

🎁 Expect raffles featuring top-tier pickleball gear from Joola, Selkirk, and Bread & Butter, plus community connection, and cooler November weather.

We’re currently inviting local businesses, pickleball clubs, and community supporters to get involved as event sponsors and donors. Your support helps fund trauma-informed services that bring healing and justice to local children and families affected by abuse.

We’re seeking:
• Swag and raffle prizes
• Food and drink donations
• Silent auction items
• Sponsor support for individual games and event elements

Full sponsor details and benefits are outlined in our sponsorship form:https://www.childrensadvocacycenter.org/s/Loblolly-Classic-Sponsorship-Form-Digital.pdf

Ready to jump in? Email the CAC at info@CACBastrop.org, drop us a line via DM here, or reach out to (512) 321-6161!

10/10/2025

💛 It's World Mental Health Day.

Today, we recognize the power of therapeutic healthcare following trauma, and how it helps children and families not only survive hard things, but emerge stronger.

At the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties, our Family Advocate and Clinical Teams do this work every single day. Through the language of empathy, play, creation, and giving kids a voice, they help children heal. They help families find stability again. They help break cycles. They help kids be kids again.

This work is not simple or small. It takes endurance, heart, and constant evolution. Our team continues to grow in specialization, deepening their skills, and bringing new approaches to the children and families they serve. They do it with compassion and excellence, showing up each and every day - and extra on holidays - to hold space, offer care, and make healing possible.

And the impact is real! In 2024, our Clinical Team provided 3,657 individual therapeutic sessions. Our Family Advocacy Team supported 378 families, distributed 277 Thanksgiving meals, and provided nearly 900 holiday gifts to the children we serve, right here in our community.

Today, we ask you to join us in giving the heartiest of thanks to these incredible professionals for their hard work, their tireless innovation, their continued pursuit of excellence, and their unwavering belief that healing is possible.

To our Clinical and Family Advocacy Teams: thank you for everything you give. 💛

09/30/2025

💛 At the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties, healing happens in all kinds of ways. Sometimes, it looks like a quiet conversation in a circle of chairs. Sometimes, it looks like a plate of warm, home-cooked food, made with care by the very same people who show up each day to help families heal.

Every week, our Clinical and Family Advocacy teams prepare comforting, nutritious meals for the families attending group therapy - a vital space where children and caregivers process trauma, build community, learn coping skills, and develop healthier relationships. These sessions are a soft place to land, and a chance to be seen and supported.

While our licensed therapists and advocates lead small-group sessions focused on boundaries, healthy relationships, and emotional recovery - they also make sure the basics are covered: free babysitting, a warm meal, and an environment of kindness, safety, and hope. Because you need a solid foundation if you want to build.

This is what trauma-informed care looks like.

09/23/2025

Attention Pickleball Pros and your Pickleball Posses! Mark your calendars for the Loblolly Classic - Pickleball in the Pines coming up on November 8–9, 9 AM–6 PM at Bastrop Area Pickleball Association!

Two full days of fierce volleys, friendly rivalries, and fall air under the Lost Pines, all to benefit the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties!

🏓 Men’s, Women’s & Mixed Doubles
🏓 Divisions: All Ages, 40+, 60+
🏓 Raffles stacked with gear from Joola, Selkirk & Bread & Butter

This isn’t just a tournament, it’s a chance to serve, smash, and support! Every point played helps provide hope and healing for children and families in our community.

✨ Huge thanks to Double R Pickleball for sponsoring this event. YOU can step up as a sponsor too, and put your name where the action is. Email us at info@cacbastrop.org!

👉 Register here: https://pickleballtournaments.com/tournaments/lob-lolly-classic-benefiting-the-childrens-advocacy-center-austin-area

09/20/2025

Disco Darlin's with Designer Bags: Lee & Fayette Counties Designer Purse Bingo 2025 was the fringiest, funkiest, and most fabulous afternoon! Our friends never fail to strut their stuff while raising funds for the Children's Advocacy Center Serving Bastrop, Lee & Fayette Counties!

Our signature events, and the work of the CAC simply wouldn't be possible without the generosity of our community. Thanks so much to our top-tier Louis-Level sponsors, who show up, show off, win big, and truly make our event shine.

Thanks to Alpha One Ford La Grange, TCS Mechanical, WJC Constructors, S&S Grain Co. Flatonia, Brenham QuickMart & The Shack Outback, The Hot Messes, Sparrow Appraisal Solutions and Gold N Vibes Salon & Boutique LLC for your continued support of the CAC!