CR is a non-profit organization providing quality services to help empower individuals with a wide range of disabilities to live as independently and with as high a quality of life as possible. Through our programs, our residents experience greater independence, dignity, fulfillment and happiness.
Community Residences began in 1975 when a group of Arlington families, faith groups and government leaders worked with Arlington County to charter an independent nonprofit agency that would bring together and expand efforts to help people with mental health and/or intellectual disabilities.
At its outset, Arlington Community Residences (as it was initially known) stood at the forefront of the growing community integration movement. This grass-roots, family-driven effort sought to create community-based alternatives to the institutionalization of people with mental health or intellectual disabilities. Arlington Community Residences brought together a few existing group homes and started several new homes so that Arlington resident with disabilities could live close to and regularly interact with family, friends and and neighbors.
As the community integration movement grew and the demand for community-based alternatives expanded, Arlington Community Residences became Community Residences when services were initiated throughout Northern Virginia, the Richmond area, and in Maryland. Expansion was not only geographic; CR also began to offer case management and transitional supports for people who were homeless, residential youth services, day programs for adult with intellectual disabilities, and home-based clinical and practical support for people living on their own.
Over the past four decades, thousands of individuals have been supported by CR. That tradition continues with individualized supports providing for fulfilling, high-quality lives of maximum independence.
CR offers individuals with disabilities supportive housing and the physical, mental and emotional services needed to facilitate independent and dignified living within the community.
CR is one of the largest providers of supports to individuals with disabilities in Virginia, with services in Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties, in the Richmond area, and in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
CR provides medical, therapeutic, educational, vocational, residential and integrative recreational services to the formation of vital relational communities through which each individual may experience greater independence, dignity, fulfillment and happiness.
