The Board of Supervisors today appointed Daryl Washington as executive director of the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB), the public agency for Fairfax County and the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church that provides services for people with concerns related to mental health, substance use and intellectual and developmental disabilities. He begins his position immediately.

“I am honored and humbled to accept the CSB executive director position,” says Washington. “I look forward to continue building on the great work that is being done with Diversion First, the Opioid Task Force and the implementation of community-based developmental disability services. It is especially meaningful to be able to serve the community where I grew up and still live.”

Washington is a seasoned behavioral health and developmental disability leader, administrator and clinician with 25 years of experience. He served as deputy director of clinical operations for the CSB for five years before being named acting executive director of the agency in January 2018. In this capacity, he was responsible for the overall leadership and direction of the community behavioral healthcare agency’s $170 million budget, serving 23,000 individuals annually.

Washington has been with the county since 1996, when he signed on as a mental health supervisor for Mental Health Adult Residential Services. Since that time he has continued to expand his expertise within the CSB, serving with homeless services for four years before being named service director for residential services in 2008. He spent 13 years working in private settings in Manassas, Woodbridge and Oakton refining his skills as a clinical social worker while continuing his work at the CSB.

Washington earned a bachelor’s in social work from North Carolina State University and a master’s in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia since 1995 and has pursued post graduate study in education with the University of Virginia. Washington will earn an annual salary of $182,000.