Overview Of The Affiliation
While the alliance between the National Leadership Consortium and CQL will provide numerous benefits for the field, it will not have a marked effect on either organizations’ existing services, partnerships, or initiatives.
Basis For The Partnership
This relationship was developed through an alignment of values, a collective interest in improving the field, and complementary expertise in numerous areas. CQL offers administrative and operational support more directly tied to human services – strengthening NLC’s goals to assure the quality and commitment of the next generation of leaders.
Benefits For The Field
The partnership provides opportunities for collaboration between CQL and NLC, through the development of practical guides, timely articles, impactful research, and engaging presentations. These new tools, resources, and offerings will help improve the lives of people with disabilities and advance the expertise of leaders in human services.
Impact on NLC
The National Leadership Consortium remains as a semi-autonomous organization independently focused on its own internationally-recognized intensive leadership institutes, leadership training, resource development, research initiatives, and community-building efforts among leaders in the disability services sector field.
Impact On CQL
The affiliation does not have any implications for CQL’s core services of accreditation, training, certification, research, or consultation. While CQL’s partners may individually choose to engage with the National Leadership Consortium’s initiatives, involvement in their offerings such as the leadership institutes is not being integrated into CQL’s services.
The National Leadership Consortium
The National Leadership Consortium works to assure that the next generation of disability service sector leaders have the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to lead organizations and systems.
Learn MoreLeadership Institutes
Leadership Institutes support leaders to enhance knowledge, skills & values to promote sustainable, responsive, and effective practices.
Training & Development
NLC offers targeted leadership development, training, and support focused on building specific skills of disability service sector leaders.
Technical Assistance & Support
Agencies can receive guidance as they transform agency structures, practices, and service models to improve their impact.
Research & Evaluation
The research and evaluation initiatives explore the skills, career trajectories, and perspectives of disability service sector leaders.
Online Community of Practice
A networking platform from NLC offers disability leaders a medium for connecting, collaborating, and sharing resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
This partnership was initiated due to an alignment of values, principles, mission/vision, and strategic objectives between the two organizations. Considering CQL’s direct involvement in improving quality across the human services field, the repositioning of NLC as an affiliate of CQL was a better fit in comparison to its previous affiliation with the university system.
The National Leadership Consortium remains as an independent, semi-autonomous organization hosting its leadership institutes, training, research, programs. When relevant and applicable, CQL may join a Leadership Institute as a guest presenter just as it has done for more than a decade. Through this alliance, CQL is providing administrative, operational, and marketing support to the National Leadership Consortium – as needed.
The partnership has no effect on CQL’s core services of accreditation, training, certification, research, and/or consultation. For example, participation in a NLC Leadership Institute will not be a requirement of achieving or maintaining accreditation. As some human services professionals associated with CQL have in the past, they can still elect to participate in a NLC Leadership Institute to promote their own growth as a leader in the field.
Considering the collective expertise and experience of NLC and CQL, there are opportunities for the organizations to collaborate on resources, tools, guides, webinars, etc. This offers a wealth of knowledge and insight that can help spread best practices across the human services field to help professionals as well as people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who receive services.
There will not be any effect on the industry partners, sponsors, etc. of either NLC or CQL. The organizations’ connections with those partner entities are remaining intact and the related support, collaboration, and involvement is just as important as ever following this new alliance.
