June 8 – Summit 20th Anniversary/Graduation Party. Twenty five people showed up to enjoy Subway sandwiches, meet each other, and learn what Summit can offer the community. Thank you to all the people who came to join us from these groups and agencies: Salish Kootenai College, Mission Mountain Enterprises, People First and Life for the [...]
Summit is now recruiting participants for the Women’s Safer and Stronger Program pilot. The program is an online education tool that is designed to help women with disabilities learn to be safer from abuse and to provide them with information about local resources where they can get assistance if they are experiencing abuse. Participants will [...]
Summit is partnering with the Rural Institute and two other CILs to offer peer support services in Ravalli and Lake counties. This peer support project is for people with physical limitations such as walking, seeing, hearing or talking, who may be experiencing depression, anxiety, frustration or other mental health symptoms. Peer support means getting together [...]
Here in Lake County, we are getting ready to finish the second quarter at SKC and looking forward to a two-week break. Next quarter, we’ll start with a new of Living Well with a Disability class. Susan Morris from Missoula is gearing up to start the Safer and Stronger research program here. If you know [...]
Up here in Lake County we’ll be busy preparing for all the August events during June and July. We will be attending the Native American Cross Cultural and IL Aspects workshop in Great Falls on Aug. 9 and 10. On Aug. 17 Mary Olson and Mike Beers will hold a short “Lead On” presentation for [...]
January 20th was an exciting day to be at the Capitol! The Statewide Independent Living Council and Montana’s four Centers for Independent Living (Summit, NCILS, MILP, and LIFFT) sponsored this year’s Legislative Day event during the 2011 Legislative Session, which was held in the Capitol Rotunda. Approximately 100 people participated in Legislative Day this year, [...]
Montana’s Independent Living Centers, along with AARP Montana, Disability Rights Montana, Montana Association of Community Disability Services, Mental Health America of Montana, the Area Agencies on Aging, the Community Mental Health Centers, and consumers from all across Montana rallied in the Capitol Rotunda in Helena on Thursday, March 10th to send a message to legislators [...]
On April 1, 2011, disability advocates joined approximately 1,500-2,000 Montana citizens from all across the state in front of the Capitol in Helena for the No Fooling with Our Future rally. MEA-MFT organized the rally along with the Partnership for Montana's Future. Concerned about the legislature’s deep cuts to education, human services, children’s health programs, [...]
The 2011 Legislature is still going full steam ahead but we wanted to take this opportunity to provide this update of the legislation the Montana Centers for Independent Living has been working on this session. For more complete details about each of the bills we have been following, which are listed below, please go to [...]
Over the next eight months, Summit will be conducting an education campaign about the Medicaid for Workers with Disabilities program. Justyn Field, Summit’s new communications & media specialist, will be spearheading this effort. So, if you are asking yourself “How does this darn thing work?” or “How does the Medicaid for workers with Disabilities program [...]