After complete Beliefs and Skills for Domestic Peace program, Center for Advancing Domestic Peace provides an ongoing network of community support to keep participants on the path to positive personal growth.

A group that helps consumers with the tools and expectations necessary for them to guide their life now and in the future. Peer support is not designed to replace professional counseling, but it can serve as an additional support in improving the lives of people with disabilities. Support can come from one-on-one peer support with RAMP staff, board members, consumers, and community support groups.

RAMP works with students and their families to learn the laws that protect the rights of a student with a disability, how to navigate the maze of community services, and to learn the skills required to achieve their goals. Services include: - Legal rights training. - Self-Advocacy Skills training. - Information & Referral. - Peer Support. - Independent Living Skills training. - Transition Planning guidance. - Educational workshops. - Assistance with letter writing. - Attendance at IEP, 504 or other related meetings. RAMP also currently offers three curriculums to local private and public school districts: - iBelong: Disability Awareness curriculum intended for grades Pre-K - 6, focusing on acceptance, believing in oneself, and how actions and attitudes affect others. - Ignite: Prepares 7th and 8th grade students who have IEPs to be active participants in their transition plan. - Teens 'N Transition (T'NT): Engages high school students with high incidence disabilities in many topics including education, employment, and living independently after the completion of high school.

The peer counseling program provides the opportunity for people with disabilities to support and encourage each other by sharing similar experiences.

Services are tailored to meet individual needs and offered to aid a person with a disability reaching self-set independent living goals. Services include: - Information and referral. - Advocacy. - Skills training. - Peer counseling. - Case management.

Services are tailored to meet individual needs and offered to aid a person with a disability reaching self-set independent living goals. Services include: - Information and referral. - Advocacy. - Skills training. - Peer counseling. - Case management.

RAMP works with students and their families to learn the laws that protect the rights of a student with a disability, how to navigate the maze of community services, and to learn the skills required to achieve their goals. Services include: - Legal rights training. - Self-Advocacy Skills training. - Information & Referral. - Peer Support. - Independent Living Skills training. - Transition Planning guidance. - Educational workshops. - Assistance with letter writing. - Attendance at IEP, 504 or other related meetings. RAMP also currently offers three curriculums to local private and public school districts: - iBelong: Disability Awareness curriculum intended for grades Pre-K - 6, focusing on acceptance, believing in oneself, and how actions and attitudes affect others. - Ignite: Prepares 7th and 8th grade students who have IEPs to be active participants in their transition plan. - Teens 'N Transition (T'NT): Engages high school students with high incidence disabilities in many topics including education, employment, and living independently after the completion of high school.

A group that helps consumers with the tools and expectations necessary for them to guide their life now and in the future. Peer support is not designed to replace professional counseling, but it can serve as an additional support in improving the lives of people with disabilities. Support can come from one-on-one peer support with RAMP staff, board members, consumers, and community support groups.

Offers services which assist persons with disabilities in achieving and/or maintaining independence. Services include, but are not limited to: - Information and Referral (personal assistant, interpreter, and housing referrals). - Access and Advocacy (accessibility surveys, assistive devices, Braille printing). - Skills Development (personal assistant management training, basic computer skills, public transit use, budgeting). - Counseling (independent living, peer, vocational). - Free Amplified Phones for Illinois residents with verifiable hearing loss who have a land line. - Independent Living Needs Assessment. - Mass Transit District Disability Verification. - Reintegration into the community from nursing home, etc. (This includes possible financial assistance for moving home or into supportive living). - PACE Presentations - PACE will readily provide sign language interpreters to access PACE events on request.

One of the four core services of a center for independent living is peer mentoring. Since a majority of the staff and board are people with disabilities, peer counseling is inherent in what LCCIL does as a center. The counseling provided is not that of a professional trained in the medical model of disability, but, rather, the sharing of everyday experiences, skills and resources between people with disabilities.

Staff who have experience living with a disability and achieving their personal goals assist others who have similar disabilities, serving as role models, mentors, and advocates.

A non-residential, non-profit organization that provides programs and services to maximize the independence of people with disabilities. The mission is to partner with people with disabilities who want to live independently and participate fully in society. Provides 5 core services: - Independent Living Skills training. - Peer Support. - Individual and Systems Advocacy. - Information and Referral services. - Transition services. Additional Programs and services provided at this time include: - Older Individuals who are blind/low vision. - Free Equipment Loan program. - Amplified phone demonstration. - Emergency services.

- Peer support for people with disabilities by providing someone to talk with who has had similar experiences. - Assistance with problem solving. - Training for volunteer peer counselors. - Meaningful volunteer experience. - Communication skills training. - Mentoring. - Personal Assistant Employers Group - monthly support group.

The objective is to explore options and to solve problems that sometimes occur for people with disabilities. Common issues include: - Making adjustments to a newly acquired disability. - Experiencing changes in living arrangements. - Learning to use community services more effectively.

A non-residential, non-profit organization that provides programs and services to maximize the independence of people with disabilities. The mission is to partner with people with disabilities who want to live independently and participate fully in society. Provides 5 core services: - Independent Living Skills training. - Peer Support. - Individual and Systems Advocacy. - Information and Referral services. - Transition services. Additional Programs and services provided at this time include: - Older Individuals who are blind/low vision. - Free Equipment Loan program. - Amplified phone demonstration. - Emergency services.

The objective is to explore options and to solve problems that sometimes occur for people with disabilities. Common issues include: - Making adjustments to a newly acquired disability. - Experiencing changes in living arrangements. - Learning to use community services more effectively.

The objective is to explore options and to solve problems that sometimes occur for people with disabilities. Common issues include: - Making adjustments to a newly acquired disability. - Experiencing changes in living arrangements. - Learning to use community services more effectively.

RAMP works with students and their families to learn the laws that protect the rights of a student with a disability, how to navigate the maze of community services, and to learn the skills required to achieve their goals. Services include: - Legal rights training. - Self-Advocacy Skills training. - Information & Referral. - Peer Support. - Independent Living Skills training. - Transition Planning guidance. - Educational workshops. - Assistance with letter writing. - Attendance at IEP, 504 or other related meetings. RAMP also currently offers three curriculums to local private and public school districts: - iBelong: Disability Awareness curriculum intended for grades Pre-K - 6, focusing on acceptance, believing in oneself, and how actions and attitudes affect others. - Ignite: Prepares 7th and 8th grade students who have IEPs to be active participants in their transition plan. - Teens 'N Transition (T'NT): Engages high school students with high incidence disabilities in many topics including education, employment, and living independently after the completion of high school.

A group that helps consumers with the tools and expectations necessary for them to guide their life now and in the future. Peer support is not designed to replace professional counseling, but it can serve as an additional support in improving the lives of people with disabilities. Support can come from one-on-one peer support with RAMP staff, board members, consumers, and community support groups.