Mission and Objectives

 

ILDC is dedicated to building leadership capacity among American Muslims by setting standards for leadership excellence, conducting educational and training programs to help community leaders meet those standards, and preparing and publishing guides, manuals, handbooks, and other material for enhancing leadership awareness and performance.

ILDC functions as a nucleus of leadership development for the Muslim American community and offers a fully equipped facility to conduct occasional and regular programs to train chaplains, imams, youth, and community leaders. The center activities will include:

• Setting standards for imams and chaplains, and organizing training programs to them meet these standards.
• Granting certification and providing endorsement to Muslim chaplains.
• Conducting conferences, seminars, workshops, continuing education and other programs for the purpose of developing a new caliber of imams and community leaders.
• Preparing and publishing guides, manuals, handbooks, and other material for training purposes.
• Developing and distributing training aids including audio and videotapes, charts, kits and packages.
• Making and promoting training plans, motivate and help trainers, and carry out other activities to enhance the training dimension in human performance.
• Organizing joint programs with various universities and colleges in North America .