More cuts loom for Fairfax social services

Even after Fairfax County supervisors helped plug a $9 million hole in the budget for social programs, the social services director has been told he may have to keep cutting programs.

George Braunstein, executive director of the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board, said the agency has already eliminated 17 jobs and done away with planned expansions of programs designed to help the homeless. Any further cuts could start to gut some of the organization’s more popular programs, including those designed to help at-risk youth with mental illnesses.