FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Creative Community Services Awarded 2025 HRC Innovative Inclusion Seal for LGBTQ+ Affirming Care
Atlanta, GA – May 27, 2025 – Creative Community Services (CCS) has been awarded the 2025 Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Innovative Inclusion Seal, recognizing its commitment to inclusive and affirming practices for LGBTQ+ youth and families within foster care.
The Innovative Inclusion Seal is part of HRC’s All Children – All Families initiative and is awarded to child welfare agencies that go beyond baseline policy to embody best practices in affirming care.
But for CCS, this recognition reflects something deeper than policy. It reflects people.
“We do this work to see people—especially those who have spent far too long feeling invisible,” said [Executive Director Name], Executive Director of Creative Community Services. “This seal affirms that the way we see and serve LGBTQ+ youth and caregivers matters—and that we must keep listening, learning, and growing alongside the communities we support.”
Inclusion at CCS means creating safe, trauma-informed environments where every child, teen, and adult is known, valued, and empowered to show up fully as themselves. Whether it’s helping foster parents gain tools to support LGBTQ+ youth, advocating for identity-affirming placements, or training staff in empathy-based best practices, CCS is committed to the slow, sacred work of building belonging.
This seal honors that commitment—but the true measure of our success lies in the everyday moments of transformation that happen when someone finally feels seen.
About Creative Community Services (CCS)
Creative Community Services is a nonprofit organization serving Georgia youth in foster care and adults with developmental disabilities. Through trauma-informed care, therapeutic foster homes, behavioral support, and person-centered services, CCS works to build safe spaces for healing and belonging.
Learn more at www.ccsgeorgia.org
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