🎉Thanks, to CapitalServices, you and your family will have the opportunity to play a ring toss game at the 2026 Community Fest. This free event on May 2 from 11 am-2pm is a chance to enjoy a day of fun with our community of families, direct support professionals, caregivers, and advocates.
💛 April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and at CRi, we’re celebrating the people who make our mission possible.
All month long, we’ll be spotlighting incredible volunteers who give their time, energy, and heart to our community. We’ll also be sharing and reposting moments from our volunteers to highlight the impact they’re making every day.
To every volunteer who shows up, supports others, and gives back to our community…thank you. You are a vital part of the CRi family!
Stay tuned and celebrate with us all month long.
03/31/2026
The 2026 Community Fest will have a balloon artist, thanks to Southern Pharmacy Services! Registration for CRi’s second annual celebration of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental health needs is free for members of our supportive community! 🎈
Join us for your favorite balloon sculpture and enjoy many other fun activities on May 2 from 11 am-2pm!
🧡 Many individuals with developmental disabilities work, volunteer, and actively contribute in meaningful ways, helping build stronger, more inclusive communities. At CRi, we’re proud to support that journey.
During this Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, please consider making a general operating support gift to CRi.
🧡 Who could pick a favorite! Representation is so important
03/25/2026
🧡 Finding the right support for a loved one with a developmental disability can feel overwhelming, but you’re not alone.
There are many different paths. With the right supports, individuals can build independence, connection, and a life full of purpose.
At CRi, we’re here to walk alongside you every step of the way. Read more in our latest blog.
Discover how developmental disability services empower individuals to live independently, build connections, and thrive with the right support and care.
03/24/2026
🧡Year-round, CRi is dedicated to helping people express their voice and live fulfilling, more independent lives. Throughout this Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, we are raising critically needed general operating funds to support our ongoing efforts to maintain comfortable, long-term living environments so all can comfortably age in place.
🧡 During Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, we’re proud to share stories from the people who make CRi so special.
Meet Dr. Kia Simpkins, our Senior Director of Clinical Services in Richmond. In this clip, Dr. Simpkins shares what motivates her as well as fuels her passion to help people with developmental disabilities.
This is just a short glimpse of Dr. Simpkins’s life and the wonderful moments she experiences while working at CRi and serving the individuals we support!
Looking to enjoy a relaxing day of fun in the sun? Thanks to the Shrivastava Family, Community Fest will have a Quiet Space Pavilion filled with quieter activities and mindfulness and sensory areas. For direct support professionals and caregivers, there will be three chair massage stations—at no cost to attendees.
Learn more about why you should register for Community Fest on May 2!
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03/17/2026
🧡 Recreational therapy meets people where they are through personalized, activity-based experiences that support both emotional and physical well-being.
🌟 Have you registered for Community Fest on May 2? 🌟
We’d love for you to join us at Wolf Trap from 11 AM to 2 PM for a day filled with fun, connection, and community. Families, direct support professionals, guardians, and advocates for people with disabilities and mental health needs will all be gathering to celebrate together.
When you’re ready to sign up, choose the General Admission Ticket. If you’re bringing a guest who needs help registering, select the Direct Support Professional/Guest Ticket instead.
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OUR NAME HAS CHANGED, BUT OUR STORY REMAINS THE SAME.
We are excited for change, but rooted in a deep history. As we grow & re-brand to be better for you, we pride ourselves on making sure that we never forget where we came from.
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 developmental 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; CRi also began to offer case management and transitional support for people who were homeless, residential youth services, day programs for adult with developmental 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 CRi. That tradition continues with individualized support providing for fulfilling, high-quality lives of maximum independence.
We look forward to the future & are excited to see just what we can accomplish, together!
