Summit Condemns Silencing of Minority Group As a disability rights organization, having grew out of the civil rights movement in response to people with disabilities long being viewed as incapable and having faced a long history of discrimination by being forced into institutions and denied opportunities to participate in education, employment, housing, a public [...]
The 2017 Montana Legislative Session is now upon us. This session is shaping up to be a very busy one and not necessarily in a good way. Due to state budget constraints, many of the programs that Montanans with disabilities rely on every day are in jeopardy of having their budgets slashed. These programs [...]
The Montana Centers for Independent Living have launched a new action alert system at http://cqrcengage.com/summitilc/ to inform you about current local, state, and national issues and legislation that affect the lives of people with disabilities. On this site you will find many opportunities to get involved, follow advocacy efforts, as well as look up [...]
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 [...]
The 2015 Montana Legislative Session will be coming to a close later this month. Montana’s Centers for Independent Living entered this session with the budgetary goals of addressing the Medicaid medically needy standout threshold, securing additional funding for Montana’s four Centers For Independent Living, the Montana Youth Leadership Forum, and the Montana Youth Transitions Project, re-establishing [...]
Recently introduced bills - S.2089 & HR.1601 - would change asset limits for people on the SSI program. These bills would also increase income disregards, add inflation adjustments for future years and do away with some of the rules that decrease SSI payments for people who receive additional support from family members. The Senate bill [...]
The 63rd session of the Montana Legislature adjourned Sine Die, without a scheduled future meeting, on April 24. Legislators took good and bad actions on issues of importance to Montana’s Centers for Independent Living (MTCILs) and Montanans with Disabilities. MTCILs, working with many other organizations that represent Montana’s disability and aging populations, made a number [...]
2013 Legislative Priorities 1. Restore Personal Assistance Services 2. Increase Medicaid Provider Rates 3. Provide Health Care for Health Care Workers 4. Implement Community First Choice Option 5. Fund Montana Youth Transitions We are a little more than halfway through the 2013 Montana Legislative Session and so far things are looking okay. Montana’s Centers for [...]
Now that the elections are behind us, our elected legislators will meet in Helena for the 63rd Montana Legislature (http://leg.mt.gov). The 2013 Legislative Session is set to begin on January 7 and will meet for 90 days, ending on April 27. During this legislative session human service providers, including Montana’s Centers for Independent Living and [...]
Every legislative session Montana’s four Centers for Independent Living (Summit, NCILS, MILP and LIFTT) along with the Statewide Independent Living Council sponsor two events at the state capital to provide an opportunity for legislators to learn about the issues affecting people with disabilities all across the state of Montana. Legislative Day will take place on [...]
