Three months after the Austin nonprofit FamilyConnections closed amid allegations of fraud by its executive director, a former employee is gearing up to re-open the organization’s library.
Melissa Fuentes, who worked as the library director for FamilyConnections, recently was hired by Child, Inc. to manage its library. In the process, Child, Inc. agreed to assume guardianship of the popular FamilyConnections book and toy lending library.
“Finally, there is going to be light at the end of a once very dark tunnel!” Ms. Fuentes wrote in an email to announce the library take-over.
Child, Inc, a nonprofit organization that runs Travis County’s Head Start programs, plans to call the library the Child, Inc. Community Library. The new library will have one full-time staff member — a big change from the FamilyConnections library, which had four full-time employees and four part-time staff members to manage it.
Given this, Child, Inc. is looking for an array of volunteers to help set-up and run the new library, including sanitizing toys and working the front desk.
If you are interesting in volunteering, please call 451-7361, etc. 224 or 225.
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