Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring effective advocacy, monitoring, and legal representation for people with developmental disabilities.

An advocate helps people and their families solve problems and achieve personal goals in life. An advocate also helps people to speak out effectively on issues important to living the life they want. This speaking out is called advocacy.  We partner with people and their families as advocates and together work to achieve important life outcomes. Quality Trust advocates are professional, time-limited advocates.

No, Quality Trust is not part of the DC government. Quality Trust is an independent, non-profit organization that advocates for people with developmental disabilities and their families. However, Quality Trust does sometimes contract with the DC government when the work promotes person-centered services or the rights of people with development disabilities, such as the National Core Indicator Survey project.

No, Quality Trust does not provide special needs trusts for people with disabilities. While we were instrumental in the creation of Shared Horizons, it is an independent, nonprofit organization that manages a pooled special needs trust to help people with disabilities preserve their assets and protect their public benefits.

Basic advocacy intervention provided to District of Columbia residents are free of charge. Other support services can be made available to trustees, attorneys, and non-District residents on a fee for service basis.

Quality Trust was created out of a class action lawsuit that closed the District’s institution for people with intellectual disabilities. Our original charge was to advance the interests of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in DC.  Our work today seeks to ensure that all children and adults with developmental disabilities have the opportunity to live with dignity, respect, and access to quality services and support.