Help Austin Child Guidance Center continue to explore nature with our young clients. Be a part of the ongoing maintenance of The Children’s Healing Garden! 

Plants Wish List:

For the Rain Garden
Gregg’s Mistflower
Gulf Muhly
Frog Fruit
Fall Obedient Plant
Black Eyed Susan
Big Muhly
Scarlett Sage
Plains Coreopsis

Ground covers
Myoporum
Leadwort Plumbago
Blue Sedge
Creeping Germander
Mountain Pea

Shrubs
Dwarf Yaupon Holly
Abelia
Agarita
Bottle Brush ‘Little John’
Butterfly Bush
American Beauty Berry
Flame Acanthus
Knockout Roses

Perennials
Bulbine
Calylophus
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Blackfoot Daisy
Copper Canyon Daisy
Guara
Fall Aster
Yellow Bells (Esperanza)
Mexican Honeysuckle
Lantana
Mexican Feather Grass
Gulf Muhly
Hymenoxis
Mexican Marigold
Rock Penstemon
Hill Country Penstemon
Cherry Sage
Rock Rose
Jerusalem Sage
Majestic Sage
Mexican Bush Sage
Pink Skullcap
Society Garlic
Verbena
Wine Cup
Yarrow
Zexmenia

We also appreciate donations of gardening supplies:

Garden hoses and nozzles
Gardening gloves
Trowels
 

The following are items needed and used by Austin Child Guidance Center when working with children, adolescents, and families in therapy.

• New basketball goal
• Basketballs, footballs, soccer balls
• Jump ropes
• Sidewalk chalk
• Colored construction paper
• Arts and craft supplies, such as scissors, markers, crayons, paint and brushes, pens, colored pencils, tissue paper, stickers
• Coloring books
• Journals and notebooks
• Play-doh/clay and tools
• Face mirrors
• Farm animal sets
• Play food and dishes
• Bubbles
• Children’s movies on DVD (Rated G)
• Children’s books (English and Spanish)
• Puzzles, Legos, and board games (English and Spanish)
• Medium and large plastic boxes to store games
• Playing cards
• Dolls and doll clothes
• Doll houses and furniture
• Child-friendly posters
• Gift cards to Walmart, Target, Hobby Lobby, or H-E-B

The Center also appreciates donations of office supplies, including:

• Filing folders
• Pens, pencils, highlighters
• Staplers and staples
• Tape
• Wite-out
• Legal pads
• Paper clips and binder clips
• Push pins
• 3-hole punches and 2-hole punches
• Plain white paper (8.5 X 11 inches for printing)
• Filing trays

To make a donation, please contact us at 512-451-2242.