In 1982, Sally Buchanan founded Creative Community Services with the goal of helping adults with developmental disabilities live in the most independent environment as possible and give them what everyone deserves-the support of a loving family.

In 1988, Creative Community Services opened its doors to a new type of client -Georgia’s most vulnerable children. Up to this point, kids throughout the state of Georgia with severe mental health concerns had three options: be transferred to another state, psychiatric care facility, or homelessness, because no community-based program existed in Georgia that understood their needs. Creative Community Services became the first agency in Georgia to provide Therapeutic Foster Care.

The organization’s Adventure Youth Program began because there was a need for youth in care to have access to outdoor activities.

Creative Community Services partnered with MAAC to provide life coaching to pregnant and parenting foster youth.

CCS recognized the need to reach a higher number of pregnant and parenting foster youth and received their first Promoting Safe and Stable Families grant to provide Teen Parent Connection (TPC) services. This is also the year our SOAR program started, granting the children and adults in our care access to Applied Behavior Analysis therapy.

Diversity plays a significant role in the foster care system, both in terms of the children who enter care and the parents who provide foster care, as well as the teams that help support foster families. Aiming to actively address and mitigate implicit and unconscious bias and discrimination within the foster care system, the organization established Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives.

CCS’ Kinship Therapeutic Foster Care program officially launched to intensely focus on maintaining family connections, increasing placement stability, and minimizing the trauma of family separation for our youth in care.

In 1982, Sally Buchanan founded Creative Community Services with the goal of helping adults with developmental disabilities live in the most independent environment as possible and give them what everyone deserves-the support of a loving family.

In 1988, Creative Community Services opened its doors to a new type of client -Georgia’s most vulnerable children. Up to this point, kids throughout the state of Georgia with severe mental health concerns had three options: be transferred to another state, psychiatric care facility, or homelessness, because no community-based program existed in Georgia that understood their needs. Creative Community Services became the first agency in Georgia to provide Therapeutic Foster Care.

The organization’s Adventure Youth Program began because there was a need for youth in care to have access to outdoor activities.

Creative Community Services partnered with MAAC to provide life coaching to pregnant and parenting foster youth.

CCS recognized the need to reach a higher number of pregnant and parenting foster youth and received their first Promoting Safe and Stable Families grant to provide Teen Parent Connection (TPC) services. This is also the year our SOAR program started, granting the children and adults in our care access to Applied Behavior Analysis therapy.

Diversity plays a significant role in the foster care system, both in terms of the children who enter care and the parents who provide foster care, as well as the teams that help support foster families. Aiming to actively address and mitigate implicit and unconscious bias and discrimination within the foster care system, the organization established Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives.

CCS’ Kinship Therapeutic Foster Care program officially launched to intensely focus on maintaining family connections, increasing placement stability, and minimizing the trauma of family separation for our youth in care.

In 1982, Sally Buchanan founded Creative Community Services with the goal of helping adults with developmental disabilities live in the most independent environment as possible and give them what everyone deserves-the support of a loving family.

In 1988, Creative Community Services opened its doors to a new type of client -Georgia’s most vulnerable children. Up to this point, kids throughout the state of Georgia with severe mental health concerns had three options: be transferred to another state, psychiatric care facility, or homelessness, because no community-based program existed in Georgia that understood their needs. Creative Community Services became the first agency in Georgia to provide Therapeutic Foster Care.

The organization’s Adventure Youth Program began because there was a need for youth in care to have access to outdoor activities.

Creative Community Services partnered with MAAC to provide life coaching to pregnant and parenting foster youth.

CCS recognized the need to reach a higher number of pregnant and parenting foster youth and received their first Promoting Safe and Stable Families grant to provide Teen Parent Connection (TPC) services. This is also the year our SOAR program started, granting the children and adults in our care access to Applied Behavior Analysis therapy.

Diversity plays a significant role in the foster care system, both in terms of the children who enter care and the parents who provide foster care, as well as the teams that help support foster families. Aiming to actively address and mitigate implicit and unconscious bias and discrimination within the foster care system, the organization established Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives.

CCS’ Kinship Therapeutic Foster Care program officially launched to intensely focus on maintaining family connections, increasing placement stability, and minimizing the trauma of family separation for our youth in care.