Engage With the CSB Developmental Disabilities Team This Summer

Join the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB), partner organizations, family and friends to help craft future services and supports for adults living with developmental disabilities in Fairfax County and the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church. You have an opportunity to make a difference!

The CSB developmental disabilities staff currently provides employment assistance and training to over 1,300 people; services that help people enter and remain in the workforce or in meaningful day activities. Employment or a meaningful day activity is an important part of life, helping to add fulfillment, inclusion, economic self-determination, and identity to a person’s life. Demands for CSB’s high quality employment and day services are growing and we’re searching for a way to continue to meet the needs of our community.

We need your ideas on how to provide various levels of service, for the greatest number of people, while containing costs. There are several opportunities this summer for you to voice ideas, inform priorities, propose solutions and create meaningful change:

• Attend a Kick Off on Thursday, July 6, at 6:30 p.m. at the Fairfax County Government Center, Rooms 4-5 to learn more about CSB's summer of engagement. Learn more about the online idea bank, a series of workshops and opportunities to get involved and share your ideas.
• Join CSB at one of four hands-on Resource Challenge Workshops. Attendees will participate in a facilitated challenge to create workable decision-making models that reflect the community’s values in how tax resources are used to provide the greatest number of people with employment supports and day programs. Advance registration is requested but not required. Dates and locations are:
  • Monday, July 10, 2017
    6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
    North County Government Center
    1801 Cameron Glen Drive, The Community Room
    Reston, VA 20190
  • Tuesday, July 18, 2017
    6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
    South County Government Center
    Neighborhood and Community Services Senior Center
    8350 Richmond Highway, Third Floor
    Alexandria, VA 22309
  • Thursday, July 20, 2017
    6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
    Mason District Government Center
    6507 Columbia Pike, Community Room
    Annandale, VA 22003
  • Tuesday, July 25, 2017
    6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
    Pinn Community Center
    10225 Zion Drive
    Fairfax, VA 22032
• Participate in our Innovation Challenge. Share your innovative ideas on how CSB can support more people and meet the needs of more families while containing costs. Are there other individuals, families, businesses, or providers with whom you could collaborate? Submit your creative proposals and innovative business models now. We're listening. [Read ideas that have been submitted.]
• Attend a concluding Round-Up Dialogue where selected presentations from the online idea bank will be heard. The two-hour forum will be held on Tuesday, August 8, from 7 until 9 p.m. at the Fairfax County Government Center, Rooms 4-5.

Employment and meaningful day activities are crucial parts of all of our lives; get involved and help all people in Fairfax County live their best lives.

Fairfax County is committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of disability in all county programs, services and activities. Reasonable accommodations will be provided upon request. For information, call 703-324-7006, TTY 711.

Questions? Contact CSB Communications at 703-324-7006.