Congratulations to Crossroads Community Services!
ASC is thrilled to announce that it has selected Crossroads Community Services as its 2023-2024 beneficiary.
For over two decades, Crossroads has compassionately served Dallas residents and surrounding communities to alleviate food insecurity. Crossroads uses a collaborative approach to revolutionize the food pantry distribution model through food equity research, client-centered services, and community partner engagement.
Funds that ASC raises this year will kickstart and support three critical campaigns:
A Nutrition Pharmacy that will offer food assistance to patients with co-occurring diagnoses of food insecurity and chronic health conditions. Partners at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Parkland Health, and Children’s Health will pre-screen patients for food security and provide referrals or Food Prescriptions for groceries that patients will be able to use at the new Nutrition Pharmacy.
A Culinary Medicine Teaching Kitchen where food becomes medicine. Crossroads will use its Kitchen to change the tables in our community by teaching shoppers how to prepare healthy meals with culturally relevant recipes. This new service builds on Crossroads’s service model and supports its mission to increase access to convenient, nutritious options by teaching families to prepare healthy plates. In partnership with shoppers’ healthcare plans, Crossroads will integrate nutrition education to inspire healthy eating habits, strengthening families and changing communities.
A Children’s Play Market that will give children shopping with their parents an opportunity to access food in a fun and safe environment.
At Crossroads, no one ever walks away empty-handed. By increasing the number of food-secure households, Crossroads is changing entire communities where people can thrive. You can learn more about Crossroads and each of these initiatives in their brochure.
We are thrilled to lead ASC’s efforts to raise funds for this important cause. More than 80 ASC members participated in our Charity Selection Meeting last week. We are looking forward to kicking off an amazing year of fundraising efforts with all of you. Attached are descriptions of our Committees. If you are interested in serving on a Committee, please contact Jennifer Klein Ayers (jayers@sheppardmullin.com) or Devon Sharp (devon.sharp@galderma.com).
2023-24 ASC Leadership
Lead Co-Chair
Jennifer Klein Ayers
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Co-Chair
Devon Sharp
Galderma Laboratories, L.P.
Attorneys Serving the Community is a dynamic volunteer organization of more than 450 women lawyers and law students from the Dallas/Fort Worth area that has been raising funds for women, children, and family-oriented charities since 1987.
