On the Saturday evening after Thanksgiving, Children’s Law Center held its annual holiday event and fundraiser at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati’s performance of Cinderella.
Nearly 100 children and their families served by Children’s Law Center (CLC), Lighthouse Youth Services and other social service agencies enjoyed the show courtesy of sponsors who purchased event tickets and then donated them back to CLC for distribution to agencies’ clients.
During intermission, the children enjoyed homemade cookies and hot cocoa provided by CLC supporters. After the show the entire cast greeted the children in the theatre’s lobby, posed for photos, and signed autographs.
Funds raised through the event are used by CLC to help Greater Cincinnati’s children and youth remain in school classrooms, to help homeless children and youth in Northern Kentucky, to help youth reentering into society from incarceration or moving out of foster care, and to ensure children’s and youth’s fundamental rights are upheld.
Children’s Law Center, Inc. (CLC) is a unique non-profit legal service center protecting the rights of children and youth to help them overcome barriers and transition into adulthood, better advocate for their own needs, and successfully contribute to society. It provides individual legal advocacy to children and youth, and through public policy work, training and education, impact litigation, and juvenile defender support services, seeks to improve the systems that serve them. CLC offers services in both Kentucky and Ohio, and collaborates with other organizations within the region and nationally on a variety of topics. CLC does not charge fees to its child/youth clients or their families.
Children’s Law Center is celebrating the 26th anniversary of its founding in May 1989 by Kim Brooks Tandy. Throughwork as lawyers and change agents, CLC provides the opportunities for young people to better advocate for their own needs.