Progess Center for Independent Living - Forest Park, Blue Island, IL

Location: Forest Park, Blue Island, IL.

Progress Center is a:

• Community-based,

• non-profit,

• non residential,

• service and advocacy organization,

• operated

  • for people with disabilities

  • by people with disabilities.

Progress Center embraces "Disability culture"

This term is used by people with disabilities to describe not only our growing sense of a shared history of social oppression, but also our strategies for coping and thriving, our emerging art and humor, our sense of community, and an almost defiant celebration of our differences. (adapted from C. Gill)