Homeless Kids Changed Law Office's Legal "Games"

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Legal games were "outlawed" in Attorney Jim Adler's major conference room on Tuesday, December 21st. Instead, homeless kids from 3 to 5 who have lived on the streets with their parents found a Christmas wonderland where they romped from 10:30 to noon in a setting usually reserved for high level legal negotiations.
Their trip from the House of Tiny Treasures' day care to Jim Adler's Galleria law office was filled with major wonders -- riding the building's elevators to the 21st floor, getting to punch the elevators buttons, seeing cars that look like toys on the 610 loop from windows on the top floor - all were new experiences for these special children.
Mitzi Bartlett, Director of the SEARCH Homeless Project's House of Tiny Treasures, asked attorney Jim Adler to sponsor the visit to his offices instead of the annual Christmas "snow party" he usually underwrites at the day care. Bartlett said a visit to the high rise offices would delight and amaze kids who had never before been in an elevator or seen Houston from such heights.
In the transformed conference room, replete with Christmas music and a Christmas tree, children played ring toss, created Christmas scenes with stickers, decorated cookies, played with reindeer puppets, listened to Christmas stories, lunched on pizza and left with presents.




Adler and his lawyers weren't dressed like Santa Claus, at Bartlett's request. According to Bartlett, the children regularly see social workers, volunteers, HTT staff and other families at the homeless shelters where they live with their parents but have little to no contact with "business men." Bartlett said the children needed to know that professional men could care about them too. So Adler and his attorneys donned business suits instead of Santa Claus outfits to play with the children on a day line no other at the famous personal injury law firm.
Homeless children are eligible to attend The House of Tiny Treasures when their parents leave the streets to seek job training and counseling to turn their lives around.

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