IEL’s Ready to Achieve Mentoring Program (RAMP) is a featured grantee of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Since 2009, RAMP has provided career-focused mentoring to over 2,500 youth with disabilities in 20 communities across the country. In the first seven years, participants achieved these results: 96% stayed in school, 96% had no offenses, 75% improved school attendance, and 80% increased social competence and sense of social support. “Through RAMP, I learned that no matter what kind of kid you are and what you like to do, there could be a good job for you,” says a RAMP Youth from Brattleboro, Vermont.
