Category: Advocacy

Employment First: Kevin Wright on Building Opportunities, Independence, and Inclusion for People with Disabilities in DC

Celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month and Five Years of DC’s Employment First Summit Every October, National Disability Employment Awareness […]

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Family Ties of DC: Parents Matter!

Raising a child with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) can be rewarding, joyful, and full of surprises. It can also […]

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Planning for Tomorrow: Why End-of-Life Planning Matters

Over the last year, the Quality Trust family and the DC intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) community have mourned the […]

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Texas v. Kennedy:  How the Case Could Impact the Rights of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD)

What is Olmstead? In the 1999 Olmstead v. L.C. case, the US Supreme Court found that it was illegal discrimination […]

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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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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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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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Building Safer Support Systems: The Work of #ProjectPeerToo

By: Temisha Simpkins When someone experiences sexual violence, knowing where to turn — and feeling safe enough to ask for […]

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A Q&A with Jody Ellis, Director of the National ABLE Resource Center at National Disability Institute

Quality Trust spoke with Jody Ellis of the National ABLE Resource Center (ABLE NRC) about major changes to ABLE accounts […]

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