Divisions

Community Systems is comprised of 5 distinct divisions; one for each of the states that CSI operates in, and a Division of Management and Support Services that oversees the entire company's operation.

CSI Connecticut

Founded in 1987, Community Systems, Inc./Connecticut is located in Torrington and provides residential, supported employment, and day activity supports to over 100 persons throughout northwestern Connecticut.  CSI/CT works in concert with the CT Department of Mental Retardation.

The appointments of a new Executive Director, Clinical Director, and Day Services Director within the past18 months have created for CSI/CT new energy and development opportunities. To illustrate, CSI/CT is:

For more information, contact: info@csi-ct.org
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CSI Delaware

Founded in 1984, Community Systems, Inc./Delaware is located in metropolitan northern Delaware and provides residential and day activity supports to over 70 people, working in partnership with the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities Services.

CSI/DE is an organization with a strong organizational culture which, in turn, is reflected in the quality of our supports and services. Many of our staff have been with us for eight to fifteen years or more. Our management structure fosters accessibility of key personnel and excellent communication among families, case managers, quality assurance specialists, healthcare providers, and colleagues from other disciplines.

The underlying strength of our organization permits CSI/DE to offer residential and related supports to persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities having a range of needs and challenges. They include persons with physical health challenges, behavioral challenges, eating disorders, and dual diagnoses (MI/MR).

Our residential supports include alternatives to group home living and to 24-hour supports for persons with the desire and skills to live more independently.

For more information, contact: info@csi-de.org
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CSI Massachusetts

Community Systems, Inc./Massachusetts, founded in 1988, offers residential, case management, and day activity supports throughout the communities of Cape Cod and in the nearby Plymouth area. CSI/MA works in concert with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation and Commission for the Blind.

Within the CSI family of organizations, CSI/MA has evolved to rely least on the traditional group home model of service provision. Instead, CSI/MA has fostered the development of independent, supported and shared living. In fact, over forty percent of persons supported residentially by CSI/MA now live in alternative housing, gaining both personal independence and enhanced community inclusion.

Creation of these housing/support options has required CSI/MA to develop partnerships with several community and government agencies to provide food stamps, personal care attendants, Section 8 housing certificates, and other resources which complement CSI/MA services and supports. CSI’s approach conserves our financial resources, enabling us to support additional people and broadens the circles of support surrounding people.

CSI/MA is proud of its outside-the-box thinking about state-of-the-art approaches to supporting persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

For more information, contact: info@csi-ma.org
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CSI Virginia

Community Systems, Inc./Virginia was established in 1990 following the Fairfax County Government’s award of a contract to us to open a newly developed four-apartment housing complex for persons with intellectual disabilities. Now, CSI/VA partners with several governments in Northern Virginia to include Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties and the City of Alexandria to support people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Over time, CSI/VA has developed special competencies.

CSI/VA has pioneered the CSI family’s support of persons with Prader Willi Syndrome (PWS), having been asked by Arlington County Government in the early 1990s to assume responsibility for a special, small home which served persons from multiple jurisdictions. Since, CSI has had the opportunity to support additional persons with PWS and to develop supports which permit persons significantly more self-control and community independence.

CSI/VA has also pioneered in the support of persons with Acquired Brain Injury. CSI has served as a contractor to Brain Injury Services (Springfield, VA) for over 15 years, providing life skills training to persons living independently. CSI emphasizes healthcare, safety, budgeting, nutrition, and travel training/assistance to persons with ABI, tailoring supports to the unique needs of each person.

Overall, CSI/VA supports 96 persons residentially, oftentimes persons having extraordinary behavioral and/or mental health challenges to accompany their intellectual disabilities. With their staff’s assistance they find the means to communicate and to find community inclusion. Several people have been able to move beyond group home living to more independent housing of their own choosing.

Our staff are selected after careful consideration of their academic preparation, personal values, and personal interests (e.g., travel, sports, and music) which they are asked to share with the people we support. Our lack of management hierarchy gives each home’s staff team the opportunity to develop significant management and clinical skills in advance of application to graduate school, should that be their chosen personal direction.

For more information, contact: info@csi-va.org
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Division of Management and Support Services (DMSS)

The Division of Management and Support Services (DMSS) is CSI’s organizational alternative to a traditional headquarters office. Business and human resource management functions are decentralized to each state’s CSI office, a purposeful decision early in CSI’s organizational development.

CSI/DMSS focuses principally upon strategic planning, cross-state corporate policy development, financial management oversight, program evaluation/quality assurance, and support of and liaison to the Boards of Directors. Corporate officers are readily available to CSI Executive Directors daily. While each CSI has characteristic distinctions, Executive Directors collaborate cross-state to remain abreast of the state-of-the-best practice and to evaluate CSI program quality.

Currently, corporate officers are engaged in implementation of CSI’s second Strategic Plan (2005-10) which encompasses succession planning for future generations of CSI leadership.

For information, contact: info@communitysystems.org
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