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TextIntellectual Disability Services
New Initiative:
The Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board is participating in a nationwide campaign to help change the term 'mental retardation' to 'intellectual disability'. Effective April 2008, the Board began referring to all individuals who previously met the clinical diagnosis of mental retardation as individuals with an intellectual disability.The term 'intellectual disability' covers the same population of individuals who were diagnosed previously with mental retardation. Every individual who is, or was, eligible for a diagnosis of mental retardation is eligible for a diagnosis of an intellectual disability. Our agency name has been officially changed from Mental Retardation Services to Intellectual Disability Services.
Services Provided
Intellectual Disability Services seeks to promote services and supports which enable people with intellectual disabilities and their families to attain a personally desired and valued quality of life. Read our Vision, Mission, and Values here.
Intellectual Disability Services offers the following services directly and/or through contracted partnerships:
- Support Coordination
- Residential Services
- Day Support/Employment Services
- Self Directed Services
- Community Support Services
- Quality Assurance
Support Coordination
Support Coordination is a service which ensures that individuals are connected to and involved in appropriate services and supports which maximize opportunities for successful community living. It is the point of entry into Intellectual Disability Services. If you need to apply for Intellectual Disability Services, click here for information about the intake process.
Support Coordinators:
- Arrange for and complete assessments, determine eligibility, develop interdisciplinary team plans, and coordinate and monitor needed supports
- Assist with referrals to and discharge from State facilities
- Respond to emergency needs.
Residential Services
Residential Services consists of services provided directly by the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board as well as services provided by private providers under contract with Fairfax County.
Services provided include:
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Residential Group Homes
Residential group homes are small group living arrangements in single family homes for individuals. Support and training is provided to individuals in a 24-hour staffed residence. Individuals are provided assistance in activities of daily living, skills training, and community integration activities. -
Residential Support Program
Residential support services may be provided to individuals living in apartments, town homes, and other residences leased in the individual’s name or to an agency. Support is provided at various times throughout the week on an individualized basis to help individuals live as independently as possible. Supports provided include menu planning, general health care management, grocery shopping, scheduling medical appointments, arranging transportation and paying bills.
Day Support/Employment Services
Day Support services include structured activities which address training, self help, and therapeutic needs for individuals with disabilities. Employment services include sheltered and supported employment, providing paid work. Supported employment can be provided as part of a group or individually based. These services are provided under contract with several private non profit agencies. Fairfax County contract management staff monitor these services, as well as providing guidance, direction, and technical support.
The Cooperative Employment Program (CEP), established in 1979 as Project Transition, in Northern Virginia's oldest supported employment program. The program is jointly funded by the Department of Rehabilitative Services and the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board. CEP provides supported competitive employment services to eligible individuals. Using an individualized approach, skills are assessed, jobs are analyzed, travel and on-the-job training is provided for individuals and disability awareness training is provided for the employers. Extensive follow-up services are provided to ensure the success of the job placement. Services are offered at no cost to either the individual or the employer.
Self Directed Services
Self-Directed (SD) services are an alternative to, not a replacement for, traditional day support and employment services. The individual/family is ultimately responsible for determining services needed (with input from the individual’s Community Services Board support coordinator and Interdisciplinary Team), identifying a service schedule, and selecting individual service providers. SD services increase and expand individualized service options and plans, bring greater control and supervision of services to the individual/family, allow greater flexibility in scheduling and receiving services, and can be provided in the community closer to the individual’s home.
SD services hold significant potential to further individualize service plans so that services are, better suited to meet a particular individual/family’s determination of needs and circumstances, build upon an individual’s and community’s natural supports, and reorient service use and expenditures toward services individuals and their families generally prioritize as most needed.
SD services are non-specialized services that are typically, but not
exclusively, provided during the day on week days. SD services can
include, but not be limited to, training in functional self-help and
daily living skills, task learning skills which improve motor and
perceptual skills, community integration, awareness, and safety skills,
work and work environment skills, and social and interpersonal skills. SD
services may also facilitate the individual’s participation in community
based recreational activities, work or volunteer activities.
SD services are available to individuals with intellectual disabilities
who meet CSB service eligibility requirements, currently receive or who
will be authorized to receive day support or employment services funding
and currently receive “local” funding from Fairfax County.
Community Support Programs
Transportation Services
Transportation services for
persons with disabilities can be arranged directly through WMATA for
MetroBus and MetroRail. Riders may use the fixed bus and rail routes at a
reduced rate with proper documentation. In addition, eligible riders may
use MetroAccess for door to door service for specific times. For further
information please access http://www.wmata.com and
click on the Accessibility tab for further information. FASTRAN
is the paratransit system for Fairfax County human services. Individuals
should contact Support Coordination for further information about
eligibility for FASTRAN
services.
Respite
The Respite Subsidy Program offers assistance for families in need of
temporary relief or assistance. All respite services are provided under a
contract with Hartwood
Foundation, Inc.
Community Outreach
Intellectual Disability Services offers presentations and trainings
on relevant topics to any interested person, family member or community
groups about our services and how we deliver the service to the
individual. Let us know if you would be interested in a presentation.
Quality Assurance/Training
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance provides oversight and works with program staff to
better monitor what is happening in the various service areas (Support
Coordination, Residential, Day Support/Employment, Transportation) for
directly operated and private providers. Individuals who receive services
are to be assured of freedom from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. They
are to be provided a safe and healthy environment where they live and
work. Quality Assurance will work with staff members to ensure this
happens and that all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and
that the services are person-centered and support individuals in making
choices and achieving their personal goals. Services shall provide
individuals opportunities to participate and build and maintain
relationships in their community.
Training
Training is mandated for all personnel working with individuals
receiving services. The trainings are to improve staff knowledge, skills,
and abilities in order to best support individuals whether they are being
served at home or at work. Intellectual Disability Services offers a
variety of trainings to its staff and to the private provider network.
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