City Of Douglasville: Chris Bass Named 2021 Young Professional Of The Year

Douglasville GA

07 February, 2022

6:26 PM

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Press release from City of Douglasville: 02/07/2022 4:49 PM Douglasville Parks & Recreation Director Chris Bass was named the 2021 Young Professional of the Year at the Douglas County Chamber's Annual Winter Ball on February 5, 2022.  The award recognized Mr. Bass' efforts around equity and inclusion in our park programs, but he has been honored and recognized numerous times since joining the Douglasville Parks & Recreation Department. Bass was selected to join hundreds of afterschool program supporters around the nation in Washington D.C. to promote congressional funding for afterschool programs. During this time, he met with lawmakers to educate and advocate for afterschool programs and the positive impacts they create on the lives of children.  He also spearheaded the efforts for our parks department to achieve national accreditation from the National Recreation and Parks Association.  This is the only national accreditation of park and recreation agencies and achieving the accreditation demonstrates that the parks department provides the community with the highest level of service.   Mr. Bass has received the Ira Hutchinson Young Professional Award from the National Recreation and Parks Ethnic Minority Society, the Robert W. Crawford Young Professional Spotlight Award from the National Recreation and Parks Association and was selected as one of 23 fellows for the first Emerging Urban Leaders program through the Salzburg Global Seminar and World Urban Parks.  This press release was produced by City of Douglasville. The views expressed here are the author's own.