Founders

History

RMI is a private non-profit corporation whose purpose is to provide high quality residential and vocational alternatives in San Antonio neighborhoods for persons with mental retardation or related disabilities like organic personality disorder, mental health disabilities, seizure disorder, etc. We have 5 homes in our ICF program that serves 30 individuals. In our HCS program we have 1 home and serve other individuals in Foster homes and provide In-Home support for several others. Our Semi Independent program has 3 apartment units where individual share apartments with other individuals and has several satellite apartments, where the clients in single apartments.

A group of seven families with adult disabled children or siblings founded our organization through The Association for Retarded Citizens in 1982. RMI was separately incorporated in March 1988 and obtained our 501 (C) (3) in 1990. We changed our name from Residential Management, Inc to Reaching Maximum Independence in January of 2003. We hope the name more accurately reflects our mission which is to help each of our consumers to reach their individual level of maximum independence.

We started with 7 clients and now serve eighty-five people with mental retardation and related disabilities Most of the individuals live in homes or apartments we provide, but a few live with their families or their own apartments while we provide the supports they need to remain at home. We employ 84 people with the majority (74) involved in the direct care of our clients.

As a result of political changes, funding assistance for programs like ours has declined and we find ourselves struggling to continue to support our residents in the same level of comfort as we did previously. In an effort to increase revenues, RMI seeks community sponsorship through grant applications and fundraising events.