GCSS Announcements

This fall GCSS is turning downtown Atlanta into Tinsel Town!

Please join us, September 15,2009, from 6:30-9:00 PM for our first annual, Night with the Stars,Golden Goals Awards Ceremony. There will be no shortage of glitz and glamor as we shine the spotlight on today’s real superstars: the individuals we all support. Nominees and their guests will be whisked down the red carpet stopping only briefly to allow our paparazzi to snap photos of them as they enter the awards ceremonies. Once inside, everyone will enjoy delicious desserts and coffee, provided by our own Art and Food program!

But what would an awards ceremony of this caliber be without an academy? This is where you come in.

Nominees are being accepted in the following categories:

Best Actor/Actress: Individual has the most improved behavior all around (language, behavior, social skills) over the past year.

Best Supporting Actor/Actress: Individual showed major improvements in one particular area over the past year.


New Star of the Year Male/Female: Individual that is up and coming in the developmental disability community that has been receiving support for less than one year and has show an amazing ability to overcome life’s challenges. This individual may have recently moved into a day program, an Employability program or a residential program for the first time this year.


Mr. and Ms. Congeniality: Individual is overall pleasing in nature or character, great spirit
and compatible with others, volunteers in the community.


Best Art and Design Male/Female: Individual who has exhibited exceptional skills in the areas of the arts (dance, design, drawing, etc).


We hope you and your family will attend and we look forward to seeing you in this Fall!

If you would like to nominate a deserving individual, you may fill out a nomination form by following this link https://www.gacommunity.org/Secure/goldengoals.aspx or by printing out the Nomination Form at
http://www.gacommunity.org/Community%20Relations/Newsletters/GoldenGoals.pdf and mailing it to GCSS c/o Amanda Duckworth, 1945 Cliff Valley Way, Suite 220, Atlanta, GA 30329.

Directions to 2009 Golden Goals at the AmericasMart Building (Building 3)

Driving North on Interstate 75/85
Take Exit 248C, which is Andrew Young International/Freedom Parkway. Stay to the left on Andrew Young International Boulevard. Go to the seventh traffic light and turn right on to Spring Street. AmericasMart 2 will be on the left, AmericasMart 1 on the right. If you continue through the traffic light, AmericasMart 3 will be on the left.

NOTE: AmericasMart 2WW - Andrew Young International/Freedom Parkway continue to the 8th traffic light and turn right on Williams and turn left on Harris St - Building is on the corner of Williams and Harris.

Driving South on Interstate 75/85
Take Exit 249C Williams Street; go to the fourth traffic light, and turn left on Harris Street. AmericasMart 2 & AmericasMart 2WW will be on the right and AmericasMart 3 will be on the left.

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