Summit is looking for a few people who want to be in a short YouTube video for Give Local Missoula 2016. Our staff would film you working, playing or being yourself in our community while saying a quick tagline about what you do! If you want to show our community what you’re about, send an [...]
We don’ been had. The AbilityOne program is supposed to be the largest federal job placement program for people with disabilities. This multi-billion dollar program is instead being found to be harming people with disabilities. Its actions actually take jobs away from those people, place others in sheltered workshops, and provide cozy deals for contractors [...]
Recently, several Summit staff and board members traveled to Virginia to attend the National Conference on Rural Independent Living. One of the attendees, Wesley Schneider, posted several short live blog videos (vlogs) during the trip. We asked Wesley about his adventure. Here’s what he had to say. “The best part of my experience at APRIL [...]
Thank you to Liquid Planet for designing a unique drink to benefit Summit and support our community. This December benefit warmed the tummies, and hearts, of even the Grinchiest of Montanans!
When we think of marriage equality, we often think about the fight LGBT couples face, but another minority group must deal with the stark reality that they are often better off living alone or in long-term committed relationships, without marriage. These couples are denied more than 1,100 rights afforded to married couples. They have been [...]
Thanks to a grant from the Rural Institute, Summit ILC will run ‘Missoula LIVE!!,’ a ten-week communication-through-improvisation program that will culminate in a live comedy/variety show. Organizers will recruit up to 30 cast members with and without disabilities. By including people of different ages, backgrounds and abilities in the cast and crew, as well as [...]
Flathead County Social Security Orientation - First and third Wednesday monthly. Please call 257-0048 ext. 141, to register and get location. YODA - Youth group meets once a month. Living Well with a Disability - TBA Working Well with a Disability - TBA Social Activities - We get together four times a year for social [...]
We at Summit Independent Living are grateful for all of the support we received from sponsors, community partners, allies, staff, peers, volunteers, consumers and our communities for our many events celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act this summer! We have seen great growth and promise over the last 25 years. To [...]
Summit Independent Living Peer Advocate Rick Eakle won the 2015 Rising Star Award in the Bitterroot Toastmasters Club for most improvement in speaking and/or leadership skills. For the award Eakle received a commemorative certificate and his name was added to the Bitterroot Toastmasters Club’s Montana-shaped plaque for permanent display in their meeting room. Rick, who [...]
Last month, peer advocate Jason Billehus gathered with other self-advocate leaders from the western United States in Seattle at the 2015 Pacific Alliance on Disability Self Advocacy (PADSA) Leadership Academy. There, leaders shared information and learned more about topics such as organizational management, social media, and self-advocate leadership with their self-advocacy organizations. Participants also created [...]