Community Residences (CRI)

Community Residences offers a wide variety of services and activities to individuals with intellectual disabilities. These individuals are supported in community residences' neighborhood homes. Every home is located within reasonable access to shopping, recreational, social, cultural and religious activities; health care facilities, transportation and vocational opportunities are also available. All services are flexible and responsive to the person supported and these individuals are fully integrated into community life. Each person's service plan is different. Services and activities may include life skills, education and coaching, support with daily living skills, medical/clinical coordination and oversight. Psycho educational counseling, positive behavioral and crisis support, recreation and leisure activities, transportation and resource and benefits coordination are services that are also available. Community Residences provides services for individuals with mental health diagnoses who reside in a community residences home, and also serves individuals who live in the community. All community residences homes are located in neighborhoods that are close to shopping, public transportation, and social, recreational, and cultural activities. Community services are designed to promote community tenure, to prevent homelessness, hospitalization, incarceration through learning skills, and to develop natural supports. These services reflect the belief that individuals can grow, change and recover from the symptoms of mental illness and can live more independently in the community of their choosing.