Comal Cops for Kids Gives $25K to Children's Advocacy Center

(New Braunfels, TX)  --  The Comal County Children’s Advocacy Center is a non-profit facility that provides a one-stop-shop of sorts for local law enforcement and prosecutors that need to interview children that have been abused or neglected.  Instead of making those kids suffer through multiple interviews in sterile environments (like the hospital or the courthouse), the CAC provides a home-like setting, professional forensic interviewers, and a place for all of those investigators to do one interview, instead of multiple interviews.  But the Children’s Advocacy Center has just about outgrown its location on Union Street, and the CAC staff are eager to begin construction on the plans they have to build a new facility near Gruene, off of Hunter Road.  And on Friday, they got 25-thousand dollars closer to their fundraising goal, thanks to a donation by Comal Cops for Kids.

Back in May, our sister station, KNBT, held the 15th annual Americana Music Jam at Gruene Hall, which benefits various, local non-profit agencies. This year the Jam generated 68-thousand dollars, and that money went straight to the folks at Comal Cops for Kids, which sponsors various kid-oriented charities in the area, specifically the Blue and Green Santa programs and St Jude’s Ranch for Children. 

But another of their favorite charities is the Comal County Children’s Advocacy Center, which is building a brand new facility off of Hunter Road and FM 306.  Comal Cops for Kids presented a twenty-five thousand dollar check to the CAC at a ceremony last Friday at the site of the future facility.

Comal Cops for Kids is gearing up for one of its big annual fundraisers, that being the Gruene Turkey Trot 5k run walk through beautiful Gruene Texas, plus of course the quarter mile kids turkey Chase, where John Bell of the Sheriff’s Office dresses up like a turkey and is chased, but rarely caught, by the kids in attendance. 

For more information on Cops for Kids and the Turkey Trot logon to http://comalcopsforkids.org.

And for the complete story on Friday's donation from KGNB News Reporter Mike Reynolds, just click the Audio Clip link below.