Yearly Archives: 2026

July Board Chair and President Note

Dear Friends, Partners, and Members of the Quality Trust Family, Twenty-five years ago, a group of committed advocates came together […]

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Equality and Justice for All — Can’t Leave People with IDD Behind 

As we wrap up Pride Month and get ready to celebrate the 4th of July, it is important to not […]

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Shawn’s June CEO Note

It is with great honor, and a little sadness, that I congratulate Jimi Lethbridge one last time on his retirement […]

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Quality Trust expands its Young Adult Leadership and Advocacy Initiative

Quality Trust recently expanded its Young Adult Leadership and Advocacy Initiative to advance those solutions that speak to transition-aged youth […]

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Community Spotlight: DJ Showout on Music, Self-Advocacy, and Black Music Month

As Quality Trust celebrates Black Music Month, we sat down with community member and self-advocate DJ Joshua “Showout” Blassingame, a […]

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Shawn’s May CEO Note

I want to congratulate Project ACTION! and the Georgetown University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) for a great […]

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Jimi Lethbridge and the Long Arc of Reform

For more than two decades, Jimi Lethbridge stood at the center of one of Washington, DC’s most difficult and transformative […]

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Lessons From a Life in Advocacy

I have reached the end of my nearly forty-year career. Retiring makes one reflect, and memory is a strange thing. […]

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Shawn’s April CEO Note

Did you know that April is Autism Acceptance Month, not Autism Awareness Month? The Autism Society of America began celebrating […]

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Attorney Spenser Dettwyler on Autism Acceptance and Advocacy

For Autism Acceptance Month, Quality Trust spoke with our attorney, Spenser Dettwyler, about how his lived experience with autism shapes […]

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