ON THE GO OC - Things to do with your family.: Lucille's Bar-B-Que Teams Up to Support #AutismAwareness this April with "Round It Up"
Lucille's Bar-B-Que Teams Up to Support #AutismAwareness this April with "Round It Up"
To Increase Acceptance and Understanding of Autism Family-owned, award-winning barbeque destination Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que is teaming up with Autism Speaks, Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center and Grant a Gift Autism Foundation to help increase understanding and acceptance of autism.
The April campaign marks World Autism Month.
Our family was blessed with our son 6 years ago. Around 18 months I noticed behavioral and cognitive delays. Autism diagnosis came at age 3 and we have worked very hard with our son and his team to bring him to meet and exceed goals at hand.
Today he is on track to be in Gen Ed for 1st grade and was tested as gifted academically! He is 6 and educationally just brilliant!
There are hard days, good days, days I cry over our goals met and days I cry over a struggle that my boy knows he wants to overcome!
Autism is not the same for everyone, but, everyone on the Autism Spectrum wants the same and deserves the same as each one of us!
We all want friends, to love and to be loved.... everything else is just an added bonus.
During April, Lucille’s will donate to Autism Speaks, Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center and Grant a Gift Autism Foundation with the Round It Up America contributions – in which guests “round up” their purchases to the nearest dollar – at 23 participating locations throughout Arizona, California and Nevada.
Lucille’s will also be serving up a ‘Blue Bayou’- a blue drink inspired by the color of Autism speaks, that combines blueberries and blackberries, 1800 Resposado Coconut Tequila, fresh lime juice and agave nectar! For each Blue Bayou sold they will also donate $1 towards the cause.
This year, Lucille’s hopes to raise more than $30,000 to help the nonprofit organization support research into the causes and better interventions for autism.
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We will be dining in to support next week... check for our social posts and see our favorites to taste at Lucille's!