Mission
The mission of the Community and Residential Services Authority (CRSA) is to actively advocate, plan and promote the development and coordination of a full array of prevention and intervention services to meet the unique needs of individuals with a behavior disorder or a severe emotional disturbance and their family.
Vision
The Community and Residential Services Authority (CRSA) is a legislatively created interagency body, consisting of representatives from state human service agencies, gubernatorial appointees, and legislators. The Authority has statutory responsibility for matching need with resources, facilitating interagency cooperation, reviewing and making recommendations regarding eligibility for services, developing a master plan of services for individuals with a behavior disorder or a severe emotional disturbance, and resolving disputes between agencies and between agencies and families.
We support services that are child centered, family focused, community-based and culturally sensitive. We encourage efforts, which expand upon or facilitate local collaborative networking and focus on strength-based assessment, local service coordination and local service management. We envision every community in Illinois having a representative group to offer and coordinate community based services to all CRSA eligible individuals, to review the necessity for referring individuals for out-of-home or out-of-community treatment or to plan for their transition back to the community if such treatment has been provided.
We envision that local representative groups will mirror the diversity of the community and provide services consistent with the CRSA Service Principles and Service Plan and that intervention occurs before an individual is at risk of extrusion from their home or community. We further envision that communities will have the capacity to develop and oversee comprehensive treatment plans for eligible individuals and their families and will determine priorities for local service development, enabling state agencies to use these priorities to plan and direct resources.