Please help the Austin Young Lawyers Association this summer support Carrying Hope. Carrying Hope is a local nonprofit founded in 2016 by foster parents and advocates who were heartbroken watching children arrive on their doorsteps with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They came up with the idea for Hope Packs: backpacks filled with everything a child would need during his/her/their first 24-48 hours in a new home. Since 2016 they have distributed more than 15,000 Hope Packs to CPS and foster care agencies across the state. Items can be selected from the Amazon Wishlist all summer long, please select to deliver to Debbie Kelly. At the beginning of the 2022-2023 bar year in August, AYLA will host an event at Hilgers to put the packs together to donate to Carrying Hope.