Welcome to The Council on Quality and Leadership
For more than three decades, The Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL), has been at the forefront of the movement to improve the quality of services and supports for people with intellectual disabilities and people with mental illness. We began with the fundamental belief that everyone has a right to a life of dignity, opportunity and community inclusion. Our journey continues today with the daily work of establishing real connections between disabilities theory and practice.
Our commitment is this to be mentors and partners to our customers, showing them how they can become even better at ensuring that people with disabilities lead lives of dignity and quality.
“Our work with CQL has helped us to improve many areas of service, but one thing they have helped us bring into sharper focus is how our outreach efforts in our communities represent an investment in social capital. We have a long history of encouraging individual community connections for the people we support. CQL, through fostering a growing awareness of the concept of social capital, has helped our understanding of how our sponsorship of civic events and other service organizations in the community has lead to an increased level of awareness of our mission in the geographic area we serve and consequently a significant growth of social capital for our agency.”
- Harrison Ewing
Director of Quality Enhancement
The Adirondack Arc