{"id":2965,"date":"2021-08-26T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta11.technodreamcenter.com\/360youthservices.org\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:48:35","slug":"360-youth-services-recognized-by-human-rights-campaign-foundation-for-lgbtq-inclusion-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta11.technodreamcenter.com\/360youthservices.org\/360-youth-services-recognized-by-human-rights-campaign-foundation-for-lgbtq-inclusion-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"360 Youth Services Recognized by Human Rights Campaign Foundation for LGBTQ+ Inclusion Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Naperville, IL<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Today, 360 Youth Services- Youth in Care Program, proudly announced that it is being recognized in\u00a02021 Change-Makers<\/a>, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation\u2019s third annual report highlighting 119 child welfare agencies across the country who have worked with the HRC Foundation\u2019s\u00a0All Children \u2013 All Families<\/a>\u00a0(ACAF) program to improve the services they provide to the LGBTQ+ community, including children in foster care, 1 in 3 of whom are LGBTQ+, and prospective foster and adoptive parents. These organizations serve more than 1 million clients annually in 35 states and employ more than 24,000 employees.<\/p>

\u201cSafe and affirming housing is our number one priority for the young people in our programs at 360 Youth Services. We are humbled to receive recognition for the 2nd year in a row for our work with LGBTQ+ young people in care\u201d stated\u00a0Carolyn Wahlskog\u00a0<\/strong>360 Youth Services\u2019 Executive Director of Housing<\/strong>. \u201cThank you to the HRC for naming us an Innovative Partner in supporting young people to live their most authentic lives.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cThe third edition of our Change-Makers report shows that, despite the many hardships of the last year, more organizations than ever before are working alongside the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to make impactful change for the LGBTQ+ youth and families they serve,\u201d said\u00a0Alison Delpercio, Human Rights Campaign Foundation Director, All Children \u2013 All Families<\/strong>. \u201cThis year\u2019s participants also demonstrated a growing commitment to intersectionality and ensuring organizational policies and practices do not reinforce the same systems of oppression that put youth and families at risk in the first place. By taking on these challenges, the change-makers featured in our 2021 report are models for youth-serving professionals everywhere.\u201d<\/p>

The release comes at a time when many have been sounding the alarm about the particular risks foster youth face due to\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>. LGBTQ+ inclusion work in foster care systems could not be more important. Studies have shown us that LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in foster care, and that child welfare systems must do more to ensure that the trauma of foster care, where LGBTQ youth already face an increased risk of both negative experiences and outcomes, is never compounded by that caused by unsafe and non-affirming foster homes:<\/p>