Established in 1980, RAMP is a non-profit, non-residential Center for Independent Living (CIL). RAMP empowers people with disabilities to realize there are no limits to what they can do. We accomplish this by assisting them to live independently, make changes in their own lives, seek peer support, obtain resources and remove barriers that threaten their dreams of independence. RAMP advocates for and serves people with disabilities out of four offices located in Boone, DeKalb, Stephenson and Winnebago Counties.

Our mission is to promote an accessible society that allows and expects full participation by people with disabilities.

RAMP has an intimate understanding of the needs and solutions to advance the lives of people with disabilities. We have this understanding because the majority of our staff and board of directors have a disability. RAMP is a group of determined and caring individuals prepared to arm consumers with the tools and expectations necessary for them to guide their life now and in the future.

A person with a disability who learns to navigate through daily activities in concert with their disability is free to pursue all possibilities of life.